Quote Originally Posted by halo
If i was tortured for 5 fucking years i would confess to anything and everything in order not to be tortured any more. That is why torture does not work. You torture someone long and hard enough and they will confess whether they did it or not.
They have to show his confession as a justification for holding him for interrogation. He's one of the top terrorists in the world, if not the main one, and knew better than anyone about what was in the works. This strategy may have been successful, since we haven't had another attack on American soil since 9/11.

If we had tried, convicted and executed him 4 years ago who knows what might have happened.