Educing Information

I came across an interesting quote recently."The risk was that you would get people who would be susceptible to political considerations as opposed to national security considerations, or would construe political considerations as opposed to national security considerations--to move from the kid with a bomb to the kid with a picket sign, and from the kid with the picket sign to the kid with the bumper sticker of the opposing candidate. And you just keep going down the line." Sound familiar?Sounds like what is happening inPortland, Oregonand other parts of the country.It is a quote fromTom Charles Huston
during theChurch Committee Hearingsof 1975.A key witnessand the author of a master spy plan prepared forPresident Richard M. Nixonin 1970.He testified about what can happen when inappropriate intelligence-collection methods are adopted by the government.Get this.It's in anC.I.A.
article calledEducing Information: Interrogation: Science and Art.I was researching how torture doesn't workand the article talks about how governments shouldn't spy on their own people.Imagine that!The article is an interesting read.
One of the best interrogators of all time,the article states,was aGermanduringWWII.He never asked prisoners questions about military strategybut just became their friends.Like I said many times before,people love to talk about themselves if there is someone there to listen! This is,I Did Not Hack The C.I.A. For This InformationAnyone Can Use A Search Engine To Find ItJim Hauenstein
 
 And, “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
- Bruce Coville -  That is my story and I am sticking to it!
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Be Kind To Everyone.
I'll Be Seeing You.  "Here is the dilemma: we want to know the truth, especially when it comes to dangers that imperil the United States; but, at the same time, we don't want to pull out the fingernails of people we have captured on battlefields, or spy at home on individuals of Arab or Southwest Asian descent who are law-abiding US citizens. That's what happens in dictatorships, not democracies, and preserving the difference between the two types of regimes is important to most of us--all important."