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You Can’t Trust A Tortured Brain: Neuroscience Discredits Coercive Interrogation

September 22, 2009 by

According to a new review of neuroscientific research, coercive interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration to extract information from terrorist suspects are likely to have been unsuccessful and may have had many unintended negative effects on the suspect's memory and brain functions.