article_snippet: Interrogation is an unfortunate name with regrettable connotations .
article_snippet: Torture, screaming agony, electrodes, waterboarding
article_snippet: Yes, but it needn’t be like that, say the authors, former CIA officers who are painfully aware of what ‘CIA interrogation’ is taken to mean — torture, screaming agony, electrodes, waterboarding — and who are appalled by that reputation.
article_snippet: I think the authors, former CIA officers who are painfully aware of what ‘CIA interrogation’ is taken to mean — torture, screaming agony, electrodes, waterboarding — and who are appalled by that reputation are also against torture and pain on ethical grounds, but the nature of the authors, former CIA officers who are painfully aware of what ‘CIA interrogation’ is taken to mean — torture, screaming agony, electrodes, waterboarding — and who are appalled by that reputation disgust is partly professional.
article_snippet: Because it turns out that interrogation-by-torment is ineffective, as the CIA’s skilled specialists have known for some time.
article_snippet: Take the example of Abu Zubaydah, one of the first Al Qaeda leaders to be captured, who was being successfully won over by the pretend empathy approach until a hardliner applied torture instead — and found a hardliner victim clammed up.
article_snippet: Presumably, The book is meant to show how the the CIA’s interrogation techniques can be applied in the normal world.
article_snippet: But though it misses that trick, The book does find The book making, I think to The book own surprise, a genuine and important contribution to the ongoing debate, particularly in the U.S., about the use of torture such as waterboarding during interrogations of terrorists.
article_snippet: Forget any ethical argument, say the authors — any form of physical coercion, far less torture, just doesn’t work.
highlights_snippet: However the skilled former CIA authors are  against torture and pain .