ABSTRACT
One of the central problems facing interrogators during coercive interrogations is that they are confronted with too many doubts. They must decide in a short period time who is a ‘high value’ or ‘low value’ detainee, usually with only limited information about the detainees. As we saw in Chapter 10, the old French school of torture would enclose an entire area or village and torture people one by one until someone helped build an initial list of ‘suspects’. This approach was also used in British colonies and Vietnam. After 9/11, US intelligence services paid local people to turn in ‘terrorists’, who were then sent to Guantanamo.1 Over time, the majority of those detained were shown to be innocent.
