Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | effective
Facets:
value: rarely
type: DEGREE
value: against anyone
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in providing information
type: MANNER
value: at gathering reliable information
type: PURPOSE
value: of all the people
type: OTHER
value: for creating disabling
type: PURPOSE
value: against al-qaeda
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Torture wasn’t effective against Al-Qaeda, and it won’t be effective against anyone else.
text: Not only is torture ineffective at gathering reliable information, but it also increases the difficulty of gathering information from a source in the future.
text: , it assumes that there isn't a better way of getting hold of the evidence, and above all it assumes that torture is an effective way of getting that information.
text: Torture is an effective method for creating disabling and more or less permanent emotional illness.
text: Though the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found in 2014 that torture was an ineffective method of gathering information — a conclusion supported by psychologists —
text: But there's a problem: no one claims that torture is an effective interrogation tool -least of all the people who practise it.
text: Torture wasn’t effective against Al-Qaeda, and it won’t be effective against anyone else.
text: Either of these two interrogators could have used torture if they believed torture was effective.
text: Second, Levinson claimed that torture can indeed be effective in providing information necessary to security.
text: Conventional opinion generally suggests that torture is rarely effective in obtaining reliable strategic (i.e., long-term) information, although it certainly can have a role in the coercion of confessions for legal or propaganda purposes.
text: Torture may be effective at getting people to talk, but it doesn’t mean they’re telling the truth.
text: Torture is ineffective.
text: Former CIA officials released a book about the Senate torture report criticizing its findings that torture was ineffective.
text: If torture is ineffective there could be no moral rationale for engaging it, but Levinson presented two real-world cases where torture, or the threat of torture, did in fact elicit the desired information.
text: Indeed, most seasoned interrogators recognize that torture is not only immoral and illegal, but ineffective and unnecessary as well.
text: And even when those seeking information have just aims, their victims are often innocent, or lack the information sought, or are sufficiently strong-willed to mislead their torturers, so that the torture is ineffective or counterproductive.