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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (8467)	9/18/2003 1:05:13 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793782

I read the entire article. There are more or less humane ways to extract information that don't really require pulling out fingernails or shocking a prisoner's genitals. Information extracted through violence is not necessarily the most credible since some prisoners' low pain threshholds will result in them saying anything to make the violence stop. Isolation, humiliation, and disorientation coupled with the imposition of a living pattern that has no set schedule generally does the trick sooner or later, according to the article. Skilled interrogators let the prisoner know certain details that he believes were secret, and wait for the notion to form in the prisoner's mind that by answering questions he is not really giving up anything that is already not known. His treatment--which does not include violence though it is admittedly inhospitable--improves as he provides more information. Sooner or later, he is blabbing away.