Despite aeronauts' ability to observe Confederate positions and support Union artillery fire, absent a decisive operation upon which to hang the Balloon Corps's reputation, indifference or hostility to the new technology of flight combined with ineffective intelligence reporting and individual personality conflicts led to the dissolution of the Balloon Corps in May 1863.
In combination with independent reviews that have found bulk metadata surveillance to be an ineffective intelligence strategy, our findings should give policymakers pause when authorizing such programs.
The Senate select committee on intelligence has waged an unprecedented and acrimonious public battle with the CIA over a secret 6,300-page 6,300-pageinvestigationg torture was an ineffeconcludinglligence-gatorture technique and that the CIA lied about its value.
The report focuses heavily on making the case that the use of these interrogation techniques (torture) was ineffective from an intelligence standpoint.
The report reviewed the cases of 20 high-value detainees who were interrogated at secret black site prisons in Europe and concluded that in all 20 cases, the program was ineffective and the intelligence gleaned from detainees who were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques was neither "unique" nor "valuable".
"It's a very narrow line between being responsive and effective and being outspoken and ineffective," the former senior intelligence official said.
The sequence of events shows the early genesis of torture and also exposes repeated, vivid warnings — falling on deaf ears — that torture is a clumsy, wrongheaded and ineffective way to gather intelligence.
Despite that, the committee has concluded that the torture was an ineffective means of gathering intelligence on al-Qaida – contradicting years of CIA assurances it was crucial – and that the agency lied to its overseers about its value.
Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war, joined with his Senate colleagues Carl Levin and Dianne Feinstein in writing an open letter to Sony Pictures, which released the film, declaring "that cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of prisoners is an unreliable and highly ineffective means of gathering intelligence".
We know that cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of prisoners is an unreliable and highly ineffective means of gathering intelligence.
Leave aside the fact, which Palin consistently ignores, that torture has been proven ineffective in acquiring actionable intelligence.
