Well yes. But I think the parent was framing it with reference to the intelligence world conflicts. At least that's how I Read it. Imagine you torture a guy to

Well yes. But I think the parent was framing it with reference to the intelligence world conflicts. At least that's how I Read it. Imagine you torture a guy to get the name of it's cell leader. You can't verify this easily. You have to capture that other guy, torture him and repeat the process. While in any of those steps you have the chance of getting false information without knowing it. I would think most intelligence from a war zone would be of this type, i.e. hard to verify, and I think the parent was thinking along those lines as well.