Chapter Eight:

Torture

“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the

Sharon Tate murders.”

―Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota

and former Navy SEAL who experienced waterboarding.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)

“Subjection prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops  who might be captured by the enemy—if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become...

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