Why You Never Saw The CIA's Interrogation Tapes

[Trifixion713]

As FRONTLINE details in tonight’s new documentary, Secrets, Politics and Torture, those tapes would never see the light of day. Their destruction was ordered by Jose Rodriguez, then the CIA’s top operations officer.

“I was told, if those videotapes had ever been seen, the reaction around the world would not have been survivable,” Jane Mayer of The New Yorker tells FRONTLINE.

...As Secrets, Politics and Torture explores, Senate investigators would eventually determine that one of the suspects in the tapes, Abu Zubaydah, “was not a senior member” of Al Qaeda. The second man in the tapes, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, “did not provide any additional threat information during, or after these interrogations,” according to Senate investigators.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/secrets-politics-and-torture/why-you-never-saw-the-cias-interrogation-tapes/

[galdur]

Well, I guess that the reaction around the world would have been that 100% would have been convinced that homicidal maniacs and other psychopaths were in charge of the U.S. instead of 90-95% before. So, not THAT big a deal really.

[Chef Ramsay]

Most police officers and correctional officers that carry tasers are supposed to feel the paralyzing effect during training prior to using them on the job. These same people that run/propose these torture enhanced interrogation actions should have to sample them out as well. Pie in the sky I know but anyone that has looked into this torture stuff or has thought about it in some depth would come to the conclusion that info gathered from such a method would be unreliable or completely off the mark since the detainee would be willing to say whatever conclusion the interrogators want them to. And, it'll mostly be off the mark. Or, when the bad guys realize that so and so has been caught, they'd change their actions and go to plan b. However, neanderthal neocon types have an end and they'll use whatever means to achieve.