It is not as if the United States government doesn't have access to the mountains of information that shows these techniques are incredibly unreliable and counterproductive. It's not as if they don't know that there are much better ways of extracting information. It's not as if over the course of centuries we developed a set of moral guidelines that define what it means to be a decent society. They know all these things. They just chose to use television shows and movies as their guideline instead of real information, real morality or the rule of law.
Let's just say they aren't the greatest at unilaterally discerning who's guilty and who's not. Which, again, is the fucking reason for due process in the first place.
So, they adopted a torture first, ask questions later approach based upon ... what? Season 1 of "24"?
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