2006-09-20 16:50:09 · 9 answers · asked by pickle head 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
if i was tortured i would lie to get it to stop.
2006-09-20 16:53:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe you may not understand completely how interrogation works. You do not simply ask questions you want the answers to. An interrogator asks the questions he already knows the answer to. When the person lies, they get punished. This helps instill fear and uncertinty in the subject. Fear of being punished, and uncertinty over what questions the interrogator knows the answers to already. This makes lying a much more risky proposition. Methods of interrogation vary from subject to subject depending on their position, rank, how they were detained ect. In many cases, at least in a military setting, interrogation and torture are not used as methods to make the subject admit guilt. It is used as means to gain information about other matters such as other operations, troop placements, supply routes, ect.
I in no way condone or approve of torture, however to answer you question directly. When used properly, torture can be an effective tool to learn the truth.
2006-09-21 01:57:07 · answer #2 · answered by Mohammed F 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you call torture. Children everyday in the U.S. break the Geneva convention on torture. Calling somebody a bad name is an act of torture in the Geneva Convention. Also yelling, giving people wedgies, poking them, slapping them (including a pat on the back) and making them stand are all considered acts of torture by the Geneva convention. I think some names, plots and places were given under those conditions.
2006-09-21 00:23:44 · answer #3 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You seem to have some kind of Hollywood mental image of torture. Questioning techniques used these days are not hanging someone up by his thumbs untill he talks. They are subtle and very very effective. As someone above said, they interigators can evaluate the quality of the information obtained and usually know when the interogatee is lying. Remember, if you are innocent, you have nothing to hide.
2006-09-21 00:05:46 · answer #4 · answered by medic 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well from the beginning of the first war, the military has believed
it brought the truth. Who am I to argue with thousands of years of experience? I would have to say it brings the truth most of the time.
2006-09-20 23:55:16 · answer #5 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it gets info. And if you don't like the info, go for round two. Apparently, several terrorist plots in recent years have been foiled from information gained from interrogation "techniques". It is a lot like the wheel: it has been used for millenia, it has been improved upon, there is a science to it, and when the day is done, it gets the job done.
2006-09-21 00:01:34 · answer #6 · answered by Rope-a-dope 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it has been proved that torture does not work.all you get with it is for the tortured to tell you what you want to her and not the truth
2006-09-20 23:56:42 · answer #7 · answered by miraclehand2020 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
depends on whether you are torturing for a confesstion or for facts that you can then verify
2006-09-20 23:57:02 · answer #8 · answered by TLJaguar 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Until you work for the CIA don't knock it!
2006-09-20 23:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by Sammy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋