Ami Ayalon Quotes

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.

An unfrightened prisoner makes an unlikely informer.

They promptly tore his fingernails out and he started telling things.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Anyone and everyone eventually confesses under torture.

Prior headquarters approval must be obtained for the interrogation of any subject against his will [or] … if bodily harm is to be inflicted [or] if medical, chemical, or electrical methods or materials are to be used.

Tainted evidence often comes from torture.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

The most effective way to gather intelligence and thwart terrorism can also be a direct route into morally repugnant terrain. A survey of the landscape of persuasion.

If the person does not feel guilt he is not in his own mind guilty and will not confess …. Confession in such a case can come only with duress.

It is often necessary to trick people into confessing.

The torture of a criminal during the course of his trial is a cruelty consecrated by custom in most nations. It is used with an intent either to make him confess his crime, or to explain some contradiction into which he had been led during his examination, or discover his accomplices, or for some kind of metaphysical and incomprehensible purgation of infamy, or, finally, in order to discover other crimes of which he is not accused, but of which he may be guilty