The fact is, torture can work. Yes, if you know what you want someone to say, you can torture them until they say it, but if you're trying to get information out of someone, torture can actually accomplish that. Of course you verify what you learn and if they've lied, you torture them more/harder, but to say that torture doesn't work is silly. It obviously can.

On the other hand, we don't want torture to be routine. But if the Obama Administration got wind of a plot to poison Portland's water or detonate a dirty bomb upwind of the city and 10's of thousands of lives were at stake, are you really so against torture that you wouldn't want some Jack Bauer type to do whatever it took to stop it, even if it involved torturing someone who's at war with us and could just as easily have been shot to death in battle?