Now let me state up front, that in my heart, I don't believe in torture. However it is fairly disgusting that you can have someone in custody saying "Yeah I know something, but I'm not going to tell you. What are you going to do about it?". Since the entire idea of "convincing them to talk" is off the table, they aren't afraid at all. They can even be down right arrogant that what they know could save a ton of lives, but they aren't going to say a thing. Is it ever right to use torture methods to extract information? If it is right, how would we ever police when it would or wouldn't be acceptable to do? What is to stop a cop/soldier from claiming that every person in custody had critical information that had to be extracted?