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2024-10-15 00:18:18 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A75AC65623EF6A46080CA6820EEC00D539776F5D6793FF427F38979ACD3A859B
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Torture has been repeatedly shown to be ineffective in gathering intelligence. In fact, not once between late 2001 and early 2009 did the CIA’s use of torture result in intelligence that helped to foil a terrorist plot. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26685-that-cia-torture-methods-were-pointless-is-no-shock/ https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2017/10/torture-during-interrogations-illegal-immoral-and-ineffective https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf
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