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Originally Posted by Botnst
It's a toughie. isn't it?
Let's say you were in charge and captured Muhammed Atta on September 10 and you knew something was going to happen with aviation but not exactly what or when. On Sept 10, you'd have quizzed him and released him. On Sept 11, what would you do? How about if he was in custody all that time and you watched the airplanes strike the Towers and Pentagon and a field in PA. Will there be more airplanes? Other, different attacks?
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That's the example that's always held up, or, the one about us knowing a nuclear device is hidden in a city and we just happen to have a guy in custody who knows where it is.
Trouble is, you could go through ten thousand guys, thinking they had the knowledge, only to get a bunch of false leads cause they really had no information but were saying anything to get you to stop.
Meanwhile, word gets out that the infidel is torturing Muslims right and left and our actual security decreases as a result. Torture doesn't work too well. Seems to be a lot of agreement on that one amongst people who actually know about these things.