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To: Ilaine who wrote (121367)6/22/2005 12:08:19 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793743
 
I can tell you that the received wisdom of the US justice system is that coercion produces inherently untrustworthy information

Really? I was under the impression that a great many coercive techniques were routinely used by cops and DAs. Oh, not torture, but threats - your partner has ratted you out, and unless you tell us everything now, the charge will be Murder 1 and you're heading to death row. Cooperate, and it will be Manslaughter.

Not torture, but most certainly coercive, wouldn't you agree?

Most of the interviews I have read with veteran interrogators say that pain just produces false confessions, but mental stress, threats, trickery and argument have their place. One said that with an Islamist prisoner who was proud of his knowledge of theology, they used an interrogator who knew the Koran and Hadith through and through, and could out-argue him on Sharia.
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