Care to cite these "many reports" that show useful information was gathered.
Here's a handful of scientific analyses regarding the ineffectiveness of torture in information gathering:
Stress-Induced Deficits in Working Memory and Visuo-Constructive Abilities in Special Operations Soldiers
Decoupling neural networks from reality: dissociative experiences in torture victims are reflected in abnormal brain waves in left frontal cortex.
Torturing the brain: on the folk psychology and folk neurobiology motivating 'enhanced and coercive interrogation techniques'.
Confabulation: damage to a specific inferior medial prefrontal system.
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BaronMunchausen Interdimensional Demon Day Laborer, Wed 10 Dec 2014, 20:44,
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