SteveAdams

I am very glad that few on this board support torture. Bybee is wrong. Watereboarding is torture, and it is wrong. We should maintain the moral position of not practicing it. It is an embarrassment that Bybee is LDS. I have twenty-eight years of experience as an Army interrogator. I have deployed four times and have worked in eight interrogation facilities and have interrogated during ground combat. I have been trained in interrogation by the CIA and have developed training programs for the Army. I have never tortured or mistreated a prisoner. I have never come close to torturing a prisoner. I am one of the most productive interrogators in the US Army. I know how to get information from people. My kids do not lie to me. They know better. During deployments I am called in to determine the veracity of key sources. I do not use harsh techniques. I suppose torture might work. I am not sure. I am not an expert on the use of torture. Fortunately, the US Army is emphatic regarding the torture and mistreatment of prisoners. I have NEVER been in a circumstance in which I was directed to do anything close to torture. I like it that way. I don't want the option to torture or mistreat prisoners. I have always known that my career would be at risk if I mistreated a prisoner. I am glad for this. Those who advocate torture or the mistreatment of prisoners are not doing me any favors--they are trying to put me in a very difficult and immoral position. Torture might work. I don't know. I don't want to find out. What gives you the right to put me in the postion to torture a human being. You aren't the one who will be asked to torture. That said, US Army interrogators are under nonsensically strict restrictions with regards to the handling and treatment of detainees. It is difficult to be effective now. We shouldn't torture or mistreat prisoners, but we are being much too restrictive.