Neuroscience proves torturing terrorists won’t keep us safe

http://qz.com/667327/neuroscience-proves-torturing-terrorists-wont-keep-us-safe/

Written by Vivian Giang

April 25, 2016

Seven years after US president Barack Obama put an end to his predecessor’s extreme CIA interrogation techniques, torture has re-entered American politics. Defying the position of the current CIA director as well as national and international law, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump told CBS’s “Face the Nation” in March that the US needs “to play the game the way [ISIL is] playing the game.” He has previously said in debates that he would “bring back a hell of a lot worse” than the now-banned tactic known as waterboarding. http://qz.com/667327/neuroscience-proves-torturing-terrorists-wont-keep-us-safe/