> Can anyone even point to open, independently verifiable evidence that shows that torture yields good human intelligence?
No, of course not.
The thing that governments find desirable about torture is that you can make anybody say anything.
That way you can get 'proof' to support your systematic (and highly profitable) murder of people around the world.
USA's various drone program is ~4000 lives and counting!
We are now having entire generations of people across the world whose sole experience of the USA is the image they seen on a regular basis as children is USA drones terrorizing their country. Not through television or images on reddit, but in the skies above their home towns.
No, of course not.
The thing that governments find desirable about torture is that you can make anybody say anything.
That way you can get 'proof' to support your systematic (and highly profitable) murder of people around the world.
USA's various drone program is ~4000 lives and counting!
We are now having entire generations of people across the world whose sole experience of the USA is the image they seen on a regular basis as children is USA drones terrorizing their country. Not through television or images on reddit, but in the skies above their home towns.