Should Waterboarding be used in interrogation

I would first like to mention that the second article you gave in your response is crazy, in the end they mention that water boarding KSM was more of a waste of water.... just let that soak in, they do not care about the person, but about the water being wasted; I think that is cruel and inhumane. Back to the topic, his torture revealed that it was him that planned/supported the attack, even if it never went thru, the CIA and the rest of the world could know that that specific threat was over and they could have someone to arrest and charge of the crime. It gave more of the feeling of security to everyone. Addressing your statement saying, "a yield of 0 incidents of verifiable intelligence data that can be attributed to the use of this technique." I quote from former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair; "high value information came from interrogations in which these methods (enhanced interrogation techniques) were used" http://hotair.com... The site above also tells us that enhanced interrogation techniques where useful and did provide high-value information. In fact some of Obama's own people who helped make the technique illegal say that it was useful and did in fact provide the US with critical information. keep in mind that just because we don't know of any more information that was confessed, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We don't know of everything the government knows about terrorist groups and there may well be more information that has not been released to the public... yet. Now, I was looking around for different methods of electrical torture and the most common one that I found was "the parrilla" This method consisted of strapping the suspect to a metal frame and sending electrical shocks thru them. What I found interesting was that you said "... it left no physical traces." actually electrical surges caused the suspect's muscles to contract in a very violent way, this sometimes even led to bone fractures. Here is the direct quote from the site below: "Sometimes the violent muscle contractions in the restrained limbs caused them to fracture. Some prisoners even died." I don't know about you, but I think bone fractures and even death are obvious "physical traces" in a body. http://en.wikipedia.org...(torture)#Effectiveness About the definition on torture, I am sorry I did not find the entire definition, I was using a physical dictionary I had on my desk. I should have looked up the most recent definition and again I apologize for being careless. Back to the topic though, whether it is know as torture or not, it does not take away from the effectiveness of the technique. I would like to know how true fear can be induced into some people as cruel as the terrorist groups. And from your point of view I assume other ways of inducing fear will not include pain. As a response to your second paragraph, I thank you for restraining from cursing, you have my respect. Now, You mention that the people actually performing the water boarding have no empathy; again I pose another question to you, do these people who have committed their life to ruining and ending other's lives really deserve empathy? Do they deserve to get what they have failed to show and give in their own murderous and malicious ways? And you refer to the people being tested "normal people" and the people who are risking their life for justice "psychopaths?" Sir, I think your mentality is flipped if you refer to terrorists and other malicious people as normal people, while also calling the men and women who risk their life to protect the lives of innocent people as psychopaths. Still, although I disagree with many of your points, you have my respect and have proved yourself a worthy opponent. Thank You for making my first debate here an enjoyable one and a learning experience. I hope I have your respect also and I hope we agree to disagree without any hard feelings. Again, Thank You.