"The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy."

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Source : "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

Andrew Sullivan

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