Torture

I have written here many times that while torture is immoral and illegal and, TA-DA!! doesn't work, but this one is new to me:

A former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush called the publication of the memos “unbelievable.”

“It's damaging because these are techniques that work, and by Obama's action today, we are telling the terrorists what they are,” the official said. “We have laid it all out for our enemies. This is totally unnecessary. … Publicizing the techniques does grave damage to our national security by ensuring they can never be used again — even in a ticking-time- bomb scenario where thousands or even millions of American lives are at stake."

There's a good chance I'm retarded, and everybody all around me is too nice to tell me, so I think I can do things like read and think but I can't and everybody humors me, patting me on the head while drooling. Cause I fail to see what difference it makes if our "enemies" know our methods. If I say I'm going to punch you and then punch you, it doesn't hurt any less because I told you. And you can't say "well, now I know about the punch, so you can't do it." I doubt future torture chamber conversations will go like this:

"Don't wanna talk, eh? Okay...maybe some bamboo under the fingernails will open you up!"
"Sorry, but I've heard about this one." (holds up hands for inspection)
"Oh...you have no fingernails."
"That's right."
"Alright, alright...how about...sitting in a box with spiders!!!!"
"I've spent three years slowly building up an immunity to venom."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Maybe some waterboarding will do the trick!!"
"I have gills." (shows side of neck)
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...goddam it. Fucking Obama releasing those torture docs."
"Sorry bro." (lies back in chaise lounge writing Die Hard 7: Live Free or OD on Stool Softener in the ICU)