Torture is necessary in some situations.

First of all, my opponent hasn't explained why torture wouldn't be necessary in any of those four situations. Since the resolution reads that 'torture is necessary in some situations' and those four situations are 'some situations' where torture is necessary.Secondly, the argument that 'torture marks a failure in the system' is like saying that 'eating food marks a failure in the system of your body's self-reliant supply of nutrition' it is really irrelevant to whether or not eating food is necessary in some situation. If torture is necessary, then its necessary. The system is not flawless so its bound to fail at times and that's exactly why the resolution is true but only in some situations.On another note, EEG is still being worked on, only usable in treating conditions such as epilepsy to date.[1][2] Additionally, this assumes that in all situations there's a trained EEG at hand. EEG is extremely complex to read and requires a trained interpreter to be at hand.Even if there is a trained EEG officer at hand, under the time pressure of a bomb threat how are you going to force a person to use a specific shampoo, dis continue using medications that may interfere with the test and notify of all medications and herbal supplements that you are taking (which, if failed to do, can result in false results so ironically this itself may require torture to extract). Not to mention going back in time to ensure that the person hasn't consumed any food or drinks containing caffeine for eight to twelve hours before the test.[3]As for the theory that torture doesn't work, you don't hear or read about it on the News when it worked because it works to avoid any News-worthy threats from taking root to begin with. If you want to use your newspaper site, then I will use my own. Firstly is an article in the Miami Herald[4] which explains a situation where torture is the only reason that Al-Qaeda was successfully torn apart in time. The first mention of Ahmed the Kuwaiti came from a young al Qaeda member held at Guantánamo named Mohamedou Ould Slahi. Slahi, before giving up the name, was tortured so grievously — beaten, deprived of sleep, exposed to extreme heat and cold, and threatened with the arrest of his mother — that the U.S. Marine colonel assigned to prosecute his case before a military commission quit. Slahi didn’t offer much more about Ahmed the Kuwaiti except that he existed. (Or had — Slahi thought he was dead.) But the next Guantánamo prisoner to talk offered much more: that Ahmed was a member of bin Laden’s inner circle and sometimes functioned as his courier. That disclosure came after the prisoner, al Qaeda militant Mohammed al-Qahtani, was interrogated 20 hours a day for 48 straight days, subjected to a mock execution, forced to perform dog tricks, drugged and given enemas until he hallucinated. His treatment was so brutal that the Pentagon decided it couldn’t prosecute him, even though he was scheduled to be one of the hijackers on Sept. 11. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the principal architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, also confessed to knowing Ahmed the Kuwaiti at some point during the 183 waterboardings given him by U.S. interrogators. But Mohammed insisted that Ahmed was an unimportant member of al Qaeda and had left the group years before. The CIA knew he was lying — by that time, Ahmed the Kuwaiti’s senior status in al Qaeda had been widely confirmed — but found the attempted deceit even more interesting than the truth. They must be getting close to something important, the CIA trackers concluded. Ahmed the Kuwaiti’s real name — Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed — was finally supplied in 2004 by a bin Laden aide caught slipping into Kurdish territory with bomb-making documents. In the TV documentaryManhunt, one of the CIA’s trackers is asked what the Kurds did to make the aide, Hassan Ghul, talk. She just offers a sly smile that slowly broadens in a Cheshire-cat grin. Torture was necessary for this.In conclusion, torture is neccessary in some situations. Sources[1] http://www.nhs.uk...[2] http://news.techeye.net...[3] http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org...[4] http://www.miamiherald.com...