http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8267633.stm
The article states that the method that the Bush administration used to get the truth out of foreign prisoners may not have worked as well as previously thought. The administration ordered prisons to get prisoners to reveal the truth about questions asked to them using torture. The thought process behind torture is that " people will 'tell the truth' as a result but much evidence suggests that people will, in fact, tell those conducting the torture what they think will make the torture stop.” This article gives numerous reasons that the method was faulted. Such examples include that “the extreme stress of torture harms the (long term) memory” of the victim. The torture that a prisoner endures could actually lead to brain damage to the victim to a point that the victim is just being tortured and cannot recall what is being asked of them. This article shows the faults of thousands of years of torturing people to get the truth or information.
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I never thought that torture was a successful way of getting someone to tell the truth, because I feel that the person will willingly say anything, whether true or not, to make it stop. I didn't really know exactly the amount of physical brain damage that could be done to a tortured person either.
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