And why are you so convinced that torture yields truth from the tortured? How many true Christian conversions and confessions from the persecuted Jews and Heretics did the Spanish Inquisition net? How many true tactical secrets from American POWs did the Viet-Con extract, from men like John McCain and James Stockdale? The Salem Witch Trials relied on hearsay and torture... and they 'found' many, many witches to burn and drown, 'witches' who 'confessed' under torture their witchcraft - which we now know to be a farce and a low-point in American history.

Setting aside the questionable validity of torture as a method of interrogation, when humans dehumanize other humans, as the Nazis did the Jews and the Hutus did the Tutsis, the degradation spreads even unto both sides of the torture chamber.

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."---Thomas Paine (1737-1809), American author of Common Sense.