Ocupation: United States Senator
Life: b. August 29, 1936
Birthday: August 29
Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.
source: "Fog Facts #2" by Larry Beinhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2005.
topic: Pain, War, Ideas, Mistreatment, Detainees