Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Contemplating or Using Torture?

"In a sense, we already use torture anyway," one CIA officer told me. "When we arrest a foreign national who we think has important information, we hand him over to a foreign government such as the Egyptians. Its police will arrest the suspect's wife and children, put them at the other end of the same cell, and then produce a couple of pit bulls and say: 'Talk, or we let these dogs go at your wife and child.' That usually works."
This kernel of information is from an opinion piece in the UK's Telegraph.

(via Unknown News)