For all the debate about interrogation, little research exists
The heated debate in recent weeks about harsh interrogation treatments at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere highlights what some scientists have been warning the U.S. for years: that almost no research exists to tell interrogators the best way to get information out of suspected terrorists. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Research could be worthwhile but one musn't loose site of the wider implications if, for instance, torture turns out, agianst all odds, to be the more effective questioning method. It doesn't take any research to realize that all of the questionees will resent being questioned in this manner and most especially those that were innocent of any crime (see Ghost Plane by S Grey). It also takes no research to realize that some of them will become rabit terrorists and all will have absolutely no time for America or Americans. What a dametrically opposite tactic to the valuable and much vaunted Hearts and Minds.