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24 May, 2004
The Register, although ostensibly a tech news website, often publishes op-eds and other articles which are only very tenuously linked to technical or IT news. Today they've got a piece by one of their reporters, Thomas Greene, attempting to link the malpractices of US military personnel at Abu Ghraib as being in some way down to poor intelligence, and hence vaguely tech-related. But regardless of that, he makes an excellent point:
[Torture] is very bad at getting to the truth ... If your goal is to hang an innocent man, then torture is an expedient; he'll confess, eventually. But if your goal is to learn something you didn't already know, then you must use a different approach.
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