FBI Wants To "Advance the Science of Interrogation"

coondoggie writes "From deep in the Department of Creepy today I give this item: The FBI this week put out a call for new research 'to advance the science and practice of intelligence interviewing and interrogation.' The part of the FBI that is requesting the new research isn't out in the public light very often: the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which according to the FBI was chartered in 2009 by the National Security Council and includes members of the CIA and Department of Defense, to 'deploy the nation's best available interrogation resources against detainees identified as having information regarding terrorist attacks against the United States and its allies.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Must torture harder to facilitate economic progress! Praise Lord Bush!

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[wisnoskij]

Because being able to verify information is not at all the same as knowing it...
For instance I might ask you for the phone number for a contacting someone. I am asking you this because I do not know it and for some reason cannot find it on my own. But I can verify the information you gave me by using it.
In general you verify through a second source or even easier through using it in the real world.
If a terrorist tells you under torture that their main base is at such and such a location, then you check it out and wee if it is filled with terrorists.
If it turned out to be a false lead then you resume torturing.