ytraM,

 

I agree also the US should not torture.

 

Let's define torture for this discussion. The only thing that could be called torture from the report is waterboarding and I have my doubts about that. Sleep depravation, cold water, cigar smoke in the face, small space confinement etc.... is not torture. I and thousands of other service members have been through all of those things, including waterboarding in training.

Very unpleasant at times but not torture.

For the sake of this discussion though we'll consider waterboarding torture.

 

Our enemies could care less if we torture or not. Any American service member captured WILL be tortured and most likely killed.

 

As to torture saving lives, simply it has and does.  Many terrorist attacks have been stopped or prevented because of information obtained from waterboarding.

The information you say that is "completely unreliable" is vetted from many sources and backgrounds. Information that is unreliable is tossed and solid information is processed and used.

The fact is waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques produced mountains of actionable intelligence that is still producing results today.

 

Lastly and a bit off topic, the Obama administration is using the information from those techniques today.

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