<p>Oh, driver, I agree with you about context. What I was pointing out is that what Cowan said about the lack of arrests was remarkably prescient.</p>
<p>But if you look at what Cowan is saying, it’s that the interrogation isn’t tough enough…not that hard interrogation doesn’t work.</p>
<p>Okay finally read it a little more carefully, personally I don’t think it exactly advocates torture - though he gives at least one example where it appears to have worked. </p>
<p>The piece that most impressed me was the interrogation of the football player who gets caught in his own lies because the police are smarter than he is. I also thought the line “everyone wants to tell their story” was telling.</p>
<p>I do, and I’m not sure I can justify it ethically, feel differently about coercion when we are dealing with someone we are 99% sure is guilty (i.e. Sheik Mohammed) vs. someone we are much less sure about ( a good portion of the guys at Guantanamo.)</p>
<p>longest article I’ve ever read (took me all day 
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nevertheless, a very interesting/informative read</p>