There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.
Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
Anyone will say anything under torture.
The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.