Why I'd Rather Not Speak About Torture

After reading the section at the beginning of Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" on the work of Dr Ewen Cameron, I realized that torture has more than one potential "benefit" to the torturers. In the weakened aspect it can be used to extract dubious confession­s and informatio­n from the subject of the torture. But the real value, and the value it has in its applicatio­n dozens of times on an individual­, such as the high value Al Qeada detainees in US Custody, is one of destroying the individual­'s sense of self and rendering memories useless. When you hear that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was waterboard­ed over 100 times, the question is this: Was the goal to extract critical informatio­n, or to destroy memories?
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