Trying to keep a secret - a hypothesis

[Brenus]

“Torture will get you to talk...period...”.1st : Nope, Jean Moulin died of torture without telling the GESTAPO what he knew.
2nd : You can’t be sure what the tortured is telling you is the truth. So if you know you will be tortured, you just have to prepare a story going in the direction of yours interrogators’ prejudices. The French Resistance developed few story about to be a pimp or prostitutes, black marketers, which will explain the travels, false identity and money in cash, for example, things that the Germans were just ready to accept for French. The time the Gestapo verified the stories, the net was aware of the arrest and contacts disappeared.

“The British were pretty nasty, they had trained a group of soldier to do a secret mission, and made sure the Germans caught them”: I don’t know this story but I eared about the British asking a radio contact from the French resistance on the frequencies of the Germans near the Pas de Calais just before D-Day to reinforce the feeing that the landing would be there… True or not, I don’t know, but it was in one of the series we had in France.

[Tribesman]

Something interesting I've noted too. Why is it that when "Bush advocates torture" all the reactionaries scream that it doesn't work, and now people are falling all over themselves to say that it does?

Nope what you would have noted was people saying that firstly torture is banned and for someone who claims to be the champion of freedom and democracy to push for its use is making a mockery of what he claims he is fighting for , secondly that torture doesn't neccasarily provide accurate or reliable information .

[Orb]

Don't EVER underestimate British intelligence.

The most sensible thing I've heard. Ever.