The truth is - torture does not work. A person in fear and pain will say anything to make it stop, more so if they have no information to give. Any information obtained from torturing actual terrorists that are willing to martyr themselves will probably be lies and will have no intelligence value. Any court cases that are brought before a reasonable judicial process (hence the administrations desire for military tribunals) would have to dismiss the case, even if the person being tried is an actual terrorist.
What does work is police interrogation. No fear or pain but quite psychological. Admissible in court. Accurate.
So we have men and women traumatized on both sides. The American soldiers that come home will have to live with what they have done for the rest of their lives.
What happens now with the detainees in Guantanamo? The will be sent to Afghanistan where their treatment will likely be worse. All it creates is more hate of America.
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal
From the article:
"In the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Americans were offered two kinds of analysis. We were given a choice regarding the horrendous abuse of those detained in Abu Ghraib (70 percent to 90 percent of which, according to the Red Cross, were arrested by mistake or had no intelligence value): Was it just a few bad apples -- a crazed night shift of sadists that raped, sodomized, beat and electrocuted prisoners (including women and children) -- or was it systemic, based on orders that came straight from the top?"
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