# Has U.S. Interrogations Actually Saved Lives

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**Created:** [August 7, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-u-s-interrogations-actually-saved-lives/414734 "2007-08-07T12:28:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-u-s-interrogations-actually-saved-lives/414734/1 "2007-08-07T12:28:31Z")

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I’m doing my best to phrase this in a GQ manner, since it’s a very loaded question.

Defenders of the interrogation techniques used by the USA have an argument that “You can save lives with the kind of information…” That is, the ends are good enough to justify the means. (That’s quoted from [here](http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/sadism_in_garbage_out.php#comments), but the argument is made in many places.)

Are there documented cases of lives saved due to information gotten from these techniques, that wouldn’t have been gotten by previous standards of interrogations?

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