http://washingtonindependent.com/39608/how-do-you-become-appropriately-prepared-to-be-waterboarded-anyway National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://washingtonindependent.com/39608/how-do-you-become-appropriately-prepared-to-be-waterboarded-anyway/comment-page-1#comment-36223 al Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:52:01 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=39608#comment-36223 Which is why interrogation does not depend on the infliction of physical pain. The whole purpose is to gain ACCURATE intelligence, not to be told what the subject THINKS you want to hear. Interrogation depends on the subject believing in his entire being that you can/will do something for which he is completely unprepared: something unknown and scary, something which shakes him loose of his predetermined moorings. <br>"...I'll never talk, they can't make me. But I didn't know they would do THAT..."<br>Interrogation doesn't work if it hurts, it works if it's scary. Which is why interrogation does not depend on the infliction of physical pain. The whole purpose is to gain ACCURATE intelligence, not to be told what the subject THINKS you want to hear. Interrogation depends on the subject believing in his entire being that you can/will do something for which he is completely unprepared: something unknown and scary, something which shakes him loose of his predetermined moorings.
“…I'll never talk, they can't make me. But I didn't know they would do THAT…”
Interrogation doesn't work if it hurts, it works if it's scary.

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/39608/how-do-you-become-appropriately-prepared-to-be-waterboarded-anyway/comment-page-1#comment-28284 al Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:52:01 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=39608#comment-28284 Which is why interrogation does not depend on the infliction of physical pain. The whole purpose is to gain ACCURATE intelligence, not to be told what the subject THINKS you want to hear. Interrogation depends on the subject believing in his entire being that you can/will do something for which he is completely unprepared: something unknown and scary, something which shakes him loose of his predetermined moorings. <br>"...I'll never talk, they can't make me. But I didn't know they would do THAT..."<br>Interrogation doesn't work if it hurts, it works if it's scary. Which is why interrogation does not depend on the infliction of physical pain. The whole purpose is to gain ACCURATE intelligence, not to be told what the subject THINKS you want to hear. Interrogation depends on the subject believing in his entire being that you can/will do something for which he is completely unprepared: something unknown and scary, something which shakes him loose of his predetermined moorings.
“…I'll never talk, they can't make me. But I didn't know they would do THAT…”
Interrogation doesn't work if it hurts, it works if it's scary.

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