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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2836152" data-attributes="member: 11760">Good call on the towel murder threat. That was a chilling one.OK, let's talk about the mock execution of the kids. To pull it off and get the information from the captured terrorist (as I recall it was a terrorist -- I watched multiple seasons on DVD back to back last year when I was laid up and very ill), he had to bring in a film crew, get a computer special effects specialist in (and they can't have a zillion of them just waiting around for this opportunity), briefed them all on the plan, hook up the TV feed and, as I recall, do this all by phone internationally.At a minimum, that's involving six other people in two countries, and as I recall, there were even more CTU people aware of the plan and working to set it up, all to get the information out of this guy.There are a myriad of ways six highly trained intelligence operatives, again, in two countries, could have been utilized in that time to get similar information. Heck, they could have been poring over the information they had, looking for clues, they could have been out knocking on doors, questioning more people, they could have been running computer simulations, they could have mocked up one of his allies being questioned and about to roll over on him (also psychological trickery, but not quite showing him his child being killed and telling him the rest of the family's about to get the same), they could have even given him sodium pentathol (which I won't argue would get Jack canonized, but certainly isn't in the same league as torture) and probably a whole bunch more ideas.Torture, whatever other qualities it might possess, was not the only option.</blockquote>

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