Torture yielded no unique intelligence that nonabusive methods did not already provide

Evidence

The massive report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (2014) documented that in no case did torture yield unique information as the CIA claimed. Rather, other agencies obtained actionable knowledge through nonabusive methods before the CIA tortured detainees. The Senate committee also dismissed the CIA claim that it found bin Laden through torture as “inaccurate and incongruent with CIA records” (Savage & Risen, 2014). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2388

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing claims about how people rationalize harmful policy; here the efficiency myth sustaining the rationalization is factually dismantled. — connects to: Real torture rarely breaks suspects quickly and often yields false confessions
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2388