Originally Posted by cmac2012

NPR's Fresh Air had a show the other day about torture, there's human rights group giving an award for best, most honest, media depictions of torture, the show was partly about that. They also had a guest who had done interrogations in Vietnam, Panama, and elsewhere.

The guy had the best info I'd heard on what works and what doesn't and he gives the best, dryest, and most cooly professional ***** slap to Rumsfeld on the topic that I've heard.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15148243

He mentions what you speak of, that torture usually yields what the torturee thinks you want to hear.