Canada may use information obtained through torture

[Locutus]

to keep the country safe, officials say



OTTAWA -- The Canadian government doesn't condone torture, but it may use information gleaned under dubious circumstances abroad if it could prevent a threat against national security.

This is Public Safety Canada's response to news a secret committee deep within CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) was given tools to better assess information received from foreign agencies, as well as whether sharing intelligence with other bodies could lead to mistreatment of individuals abroad.

"Our government does not condone torture and certainly does not engage in (it). However, at all times we will take steps to ensure Canadian life and property is protected from those who wish to harm us," Mike Mueller, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, told QMI Agency.

The information sharing evaluation committee was formed under a directive from Toews last year to use CSIS's extensive database and human rights reports to evaluate the voracity of intelligence it receives.


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[BaalsTears]

America and Canada are joined at the hip from an intelligence standpoint. They work together seamlessly.

 

[WLDB]

Using it is condoning it. I wouldn't trust info coming from torture. It isn't reliable.

 

[BaalsTears]

Using it is condoning it. I wouldn't trust info coming from torture. It isn't reliable.

That's only partially true imo. If you torture enough people separately and they say some of the same things independently, what they give up fits into a mosaic that is roughly reliable.

 

[damngrumpy]

Do you really believe our country or any other abides by the international laws
regarding torture or political prisoners? Nonsense, we just find ways to meet
conditions while getting others to do our dirty work.
Canada is no knight in shining armour and is no worse than most. America
Britain and others are all engaged in doing nasty things and have done since
they became world powers. In fact colonial Britain did many of the same things
that Hitler did in eastern Europe.
Ask the French about resettlement and ethnic cleansing. Acadia is a prime
example of the practice. Today it would be a war crime back then it was a matter
of course.
We do the same things we just do them differently. If torture gets an answer the
governments will use torture and that includes us. Most of these rules and
posturing is ninety percent of what makes your grass grow green.

 

[PoliticalNick]

That's only partially true imo. If you torture enough people separately and they say some of the same things independently, what they give up fits into a mosaic that is roughly reliable.

The CIA and other intelligence agencies have considered this. They train their agents to give the same false information if tortured so it seems legit when heard from multiple people. I know this much as fact from my past.

Most of these rules and posturing is ninety percent of what makes your grass grow green.

Chlorophyll??? ;-)

 

[Cabbagesandking]

Just looking at or listening to, Vic Toews is severe enough torture to make any prisoner confess to anything or give whatever information the interrogators want to hear.