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...Yet the CIA has maintained the effectiveness of the techniques.
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Have they? I don't remember hearing anything about that from the CIA, just from Bush Administration officials.
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Dude, they are not completely fricking stupid.
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The people they answered to were. I don't think you understand that. If you're working for George W. Bush, you follow his lead and his orders, you're going to do stupid things.
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Originally Posted by Slims
The interrogator has enough freedom to apply strategies that are succesful. If the shit didn't work they would have moved on to things that did. That they apparently continued to use it is evidence counter to that put forward by a lone FBI guy.
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It would be helpful if you read what everyone in this thread posted. The Administration wanted a link between Iraq and al Qaeda, even though no such link existed. How do you get a detainee to illicit the confession you want, regardless of whether it's true or not?