Of course I would take all the proper precautions. I would consult the recently released memos to see what is acceptable and unacceptable when interrogating humans for information.
What could be wrong with my approach? Like the CIA, I need to discover the truth.
Robert Baer, an ex-CIA agent, thinks “the CIA needs to get out of the coercion business and back to “classical espionage”” and he “believes that “Obama should not stop there” and that a blue-ribbon presidential commission is needed to further investigate the entire issue of abusive interrogations.” (For More)
Baer thinks, if deeply investigated, an investigation would show that the “quality of information” the CIA gathered from abusive interrogations (a handy little euphemism for torture) would prove abuse of detainees has occurred for nothing.
Baer’s thinking explains why he’s ex-CIA and not still with the CIA. He just doesn’t believe in the medieval integration of abuse into the way information is collected.
But this is how you build trust and how you ensure information is shared in a timely fashion.
If Baer only knew---This week I completed a five-to-ten page paper on genetics, a ten-to-fifteen page paper on child soldiers in Uganda, a seven page paper on the importance of Shakespeare in film, and a ten page paper on whether the U.S. can win the “war on terror.”
And you know what? It only took 30 waterboardings to get the student helping me with my paper to say, “Yes we can.”
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