I will enter this post directly from the newspaper I found it in. "The CIA's interrogations are likely to have damaged the brains of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a new scientific paper.
The paper, published Monday in the scientific journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, scrutinizes the techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration through the lens of neurobiology and determines the methods to be counterproductive, no matter how much the suspects might have eventurally talked". (If correct, this would argue against the use of torture to get useful information from detainees).
(Source: "Report: Interrogations of terror suspects are counterproductive" in a section entitled "nation & world at a glance". No author is listed. The Virginian Pilot on 9/22/09)
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