Jennifer S. Bryson, a former US interpreter and interrogator, wrote an article in Public Discourse that attacks the US Government's use of torture during the interrogations of terrorism suspects. She joins the ranks of other experienced interrogators, such as Glenn Carle and Ali Soufan, who argue that the torture of detainees not only violates the law, but gathers inaccurate information that actually hurts the intelligence community. Bryson's article, which I highly recommend every one reads, goes further to explain why torture during interrogations dehumanizes both the interrogator and the detainee, and why that dehumanization hurts the process of gathering useful intelligence:
