Interrogation vs Torture

Patterico comments here on a Keith Olberman interview on the subject of torture. He was debating writing up a comment, but then Stuart Taylor beat him to it.

Here's one quote of interest, and it pokes another hole in the assertion that harsh methods only yield bad information.

In a 2004 book titled The Interrogators, for example, co-author Chris Mackey, who conducted Army interrogations in Afghanistan, condemned torture but detailed how "the harsher the methods we used -- though they never contravened the [Geneva] Conventions, let alone crossed over into torture -- the better the information we got and the sooner we got it."

The Interrogators