They should have tried AyahuascaâŚ
They should have placed the wives or girlfriends of the alleged terrorists just a few feet away in the same facility, just out of sight but within earshot.
Men will ALWAYS say the wrong goddamned thing when they think their woman isnât around to hear it.
Did they solicit the input of Blofeld?
You mean those geniuses have never heard of alcohol before?
Wait, if trump believes that waterboarding âand worseâ is ok for the enemies of the state, when wil Acosta be licked up and âquestionedâ?
OTOH if the house can use it to get answers from republican traitorsâŚ
But in the end, the CIA decided not to ask government lawyers to approve its use.
The CIA realized it was pointless to ask because all government lawyers were too busy justifying torture at the time.
Ummm, enough of that and every buck youâve shot is a 12 pointer and every bass youâve caught was 12 pounds. Plus you bent your high school English teacher into a pretzel and she wouldnât let you leave in the morning.
Ok, maybe that last part is true. But stillâŚ
Why did they need truth serum when they had waterboarding and other form of torture available to them?
They should test their truth serum on dotus if they want definitive proof it works.
ââŚin the agencyâs detention and harsh interrogation program.â
Torture program. Calling a spade a spade.
You know, âsome peopleâ called it a torture program.
The torture program that some people called a harsh interrogation program.
Ducking and dodging: language of assholes and cowards.
Early in WWII the British considered using various drugs [including alcohol] in POW interrogations; after experimenting on each other, intelligence officers concluded it was a useless technique. and the idea was soon dropped. [Room 39 p. 176]
Letâs have a show of hands. How many parents think itâd be no big deal for Saudi terrorists to waterboard their kids?
Yeah I was damn surprised to see this story. And damn disappointed - the CIA isnât any smarter than this? Itâs like polygraphs - they arenât reliable either.
So law enforcement has to actually work hard to figure out what they are never going to get just with a drug or a machine.
From a review on Amazon of Room 39 in 2011:
Unfortunately, many lessons learned by the British at their cost were and are neglected to this day, particularly the gentlemanly approach to interrogation.
I would like to like that comment except I know just how âgentlemanlyâ they treated the Irish they arrested.
As the reviewer said, a neglected lesson 
At their cost - yes I see.
You are right about the reviewer being right. My apologies.
No need for apologies 
One of my fav stories in that book was, when reprimanded by a superior for spending $ taking a captured Luftwaffe officer to dinner at the Ritz, the interrogator pointed out that the POW thereafter had become cooperative after realizing that the Ritz was still standing.