How dare you interject good sense into this thread! I banish you to Lib Re-Education Camp immediately.What is torture once you recognise that it gives faulty and sometimes misleading info? What is it then? It is VENGENCE!! It is the dark human NEED to hurt someone who has hurt THEM. There is nothing nobel about it. There is nothing useful about it it is just wnating to HURT other people who have hurt you.
What the liberals fail to realize is this simple concept.
When conducting intel operations against the enemy you employ many different "methods" and employ many "sources". You obtain factual information from many many sources. When interrogating enemy prisoners you already know much of the picture but you may lack a few important details that would enable you to halt, infiltrate or destroy a potential enemy or operation that is being planned against you. This is where the questioning of enemy prisoners begins. You start with something you know the enemy prisoner knows. When he resists, you apply legal interrogation methods which included waterboarding etc. to get him to reveal information you already know. Then you begin with a mix of things you know and don't know...always mixing it up and questioning many other enemy prisoners. This is the method employed against KSM. The FACTUAL information gleened from his interrogation was incalculable in it's value to the intelligence community and in fact DID prevent other terrorist attacks.
So you see....the liberal talking point that torture produces no information or false information is PURE HOGWASH!!!