Working for Change:
Historian Alfred McCoy shows how the ticking-bomb scenario involves the coming together of several unlikely occurrences:1.) The interrogators somehow have enough detailed foreknowledge of the plot to know they must interrogate this very person and do it right now;
2.) Authorities, for some unexplained reason, are missing just a few critical details that only this captive can divulge;
3.) With just one chance to get the information that only this captive can divulge, torture increases the chances of cooperation.
In other words, it's never going to happen outside a James Bond movie. There's a lot more to the article, but that just jumped out at me. Go check it out.
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