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Paradigma11 on April 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t: The Shameful Ordea...

So you ask them 30 questions 10 of which you know the correct answers. Also if you have several prisoners you can compare answers. This should give you a good idea about the validity of the answers.

Just waterboarding till you get a story you like is obviously bullshit but this also does not tell you much about the potential efficacy of torture.

masswerk on April 26, 2016 [–]

> "(...)" This should give you a good idea about the validity of the answers."

And this is exactly, how we learned about the witches and why we had to burn them.

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