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9/11 Commission Deceived: An Unintentional Work of Fiction Based on Cheney’s Torture Program
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In part the best I can say is Wow! If you read everything you are going to get more that you need to know.
Multiple experts implicate the idea that torture does not work. Nothing I could say or do would shed any disreputable fact to the statement. I have to believe that 99% of the time torture is not going to work, but I believe it is not unreasonable to believe there are a few cases wherein it does bear fruit. I do believe that the alternatives proposed stand a better chance of achieving success better than 99%.
To me it sounds like there are a pack of people whom need to be taken to the Hague and settel up on war crimes. If this escapes any form of prosecution then what good is a government that would knowingly let criminals roam free. Maybe another psychopath