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Does Torture Work? How Illegal Interrogations Hurt the U.S.

Some are arguing that intel obtained from detainees under torture led us to bin Laden. But Andrea Prasow says that had we stuck to lawful tactics, we might have found him even sooner.

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A detainee is escorted by guards in a facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base on March 30, 2010. (Photo: Brennan Linsley / AP Photo)

When I was a defense attorney in the Office of Military Commissions in Guantanamo, President Obama issued an executive order on interrogation policy that ended the CIA’s secret detention program and required that all US interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual.

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