Does torture work do professional interrogators agree with donald trump about torture posted jan 26 2017. Does torture work the research says no by journalists resource january 26 2017 during the george w bush administration the cia employed what it called enhanced interrogation techniques on detainees around the world this included waterboarding simulated drowning sleep deprivation to the point of hallucination beatings sexual humiliation and threats to hurt a detainee . I will leave others to claim that torture in fact does not work that confessions obtained under duress such as that extracted from the heaving body of that poor argentine braggart in some santiago cesspool in 1973 are useless or to contend that the united states had better not do that to anyone in our custody lest someday another nation or entity or group decides to treat our prisoners . Does torture work debates about the ethics of torture are all very well but does it even work in the first place the bush administration claimed that the water boarding of khalid shaikh . Does torture work donald trump believes so if constant use over thousands of years of human history indicates efficacy then he might seem to be right the use of coercion including the