...maybe "information extraction" and "torture" are not exactly the same thing? Extracting valid information from hardened bad guys would probably work better by using other means than physical pain (eg. threaten wiping out their family or close ones, drugs + yes-no questions under and MRI brain activity scanner etc. etc.), pain and brutality applied to people already crazy and quasi-suicidal to begin with would only give you a mix of nonsense, lies and irrelevant infos that you'll not be able to separate well and fast enough to figure out how to prevent that bomb from going.
I mean, you're probably not torturing average-Joe working-in-an-office with 2.5 kids and a white fence house :)
I mean, you're probably not torturing average-Joe working-in-an-office with 2.5 kids and a white fence house :)