CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello December 9, 2014 15:07:00
Want information from rather than to beat them up. you're basically saying tactics like this don't work. >> well, professional interrogators all state -- and this is from the federal up to the local levels -- that rapport building with your detainee or your suspect is basically the best way to achieve the intelligence you want. if the point is to terrorize or frighten a person, yes, torture is a very effective way to do that. but the point of the interrogation effort carried out by the cia was to elicit intelligence in order to crush al qaeda. this is information we didn't have. if we had all ...