IF IT DIDN'T WORK IT WOULDN'T BE TORTURE:

'Waterboarding worked' says former MI5 head (Duncan Gardham, 08 Sep 2011, The Telegraph)

Eliza Manningham-Buller admitted for the first time that the controversial technique had provided intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks. [...]

"It's not the case that torture always produces false information and actually it's clear that torture can contribute to saving lives, but I don't think that's the point," she said at the recording of her second BBC Reith lecture in Leeds. "The point is that it is not something that is right, legal and moral to do."

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