We also understand that people will say anything to get the torture to stop. When the intelligence community let it be known that Khalid Sheikh Muhammad confes

We also understand that people will say anything to get the torture to stop. When the intelligence community let it be known that Khalid Sheikh Muhammad confessed to planning 9-11, the response from the public was tempered by the almost universal recognition that he had been waterboarded hundreds of times before he "confessed". At that point, he would have confessed to killing JFK and Lincoln just to stop them from slow-motion drowning him.