BF2S Forums China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo

FEOS wrote:

Braddock wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Interrogation techniques don't have a nationality or an ideology. They are based on human response. Period.

The study looked at the techniques that were effective to ensure that any techniques (which if you actually read the techniques authorized are far from "torture") used were effective in getting valid info, not false confessions. You have to look at what didn't work as well as what did work to come up with an effective program.

But don't bother reading the actual documents signed by the people in question (.pdf file provided). It's far easier to just make hyperbolic claims than to be objective.

So it's not so much that the powers that be decided to take the moral high ground but rather only ditched the torture methods that didn't return reliable info?

If you eliminate the word "torture" from your comment, then yes.

Braddock wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Braddock wrote:

So it's not so much that the powers that be decided to take the moral high ground but rather only ditched the torture methods that didn't return reliable info?

If you eliminate the word "torture" from your comment, then yes.

Sorry, what words are we using these days, I can never keep track...Rendition? Stress techniques?

Dilbert_X wrote:

Read the authorized techniques and then try to tell me they are actually torture.

We don't need to, we have the Geneva convention.

"No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind."

Dilbert_X wrote:

Which part of 'No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion' don't you understand?

God Save the Queen wrote:

you could tell dilbert was the target of bullies as a kid