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comment by rrrrr
rrrrr  ·  3634 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Even If Torture Doesn't Work In The Real World, TV Has Us Convinced It Does

    If it was intelligence that they were after, then they should not have tortured.

And presumably they know this. So we have to ask, what were they after, if not intelligence? Provocation? Vengeance?