[Aramike]

A few counter-points:

You can talk all you want about how terrorists deserve it when it comes to torture, but what about innocents? I'm sure there are people in CIA custody whose only crime was being in the wrong place in the wrong time. Just because some people who look like them have committed horrific atrocities doesn't mean that innocent people deserve to be tortured for it.

Your premise is faulty. Indeed, all steps must be taken to prevent the capture and subsequent custody of innocents. However, that does not mean we should just abandon the program.

Your premise is akin to saying that we shouldn't have prisons because some innocent people may be incarcerated in them. I suggest that we fix the system, not just abandon it.

Torture is ineffective at best, and counter-productive at worst. A person who is being interrogated under duress doesn't say what he knows, he says what he thinks the interrogator wants to hear. You get a vicious cycle. The interrogator thinks that XYZ plot is about to happen. The detainee knows that the interrogator thinks XYZ plot is about to happen, even though XYZ plot is actually pure fiction. So in order to please the interrogator and avoid torture, the detainee tells the interrogator all about XYZ plot. The interrogator's belief in XYZ plot is reinforced. After a few interrogations like that, the interrogator will consider XYZ plot to be an indisputable fact, even though it's not.

Complete rubbish.

For one, if it didn't work it wouldn't be used.

For two, that's not how interrogations go (you clearly don't know, because any professional would tell you that your sequence of events is silly at best). Also, even more silly is your idea that a person under the duress of torture can actually think clearly enough to figure out what the interrogator wants to hear.

The bottom line is that interrogators know somethings and don't know others. They use that information to ascertain a base of what can and cannot be believed.

Torture can produce self-fulfilling prophecies. Suppose you've been wrongfully accused of being part of XYZ terrorist group, and you're detained and tortured for it. If your captors realize their mistake and release you, what's the first thing you're going to do? Join XYZ terrorist group!

Sure, right ... do you have ANY facts to back this up?

I know of innocent people being released from prison and they don't just go and become outlaws, which is your premise.