The Jack Bauer School of Interrogation

The ‘ticking bomb’ scenario, so often evoked, is rather extreme and artificial; but it does sometimes arise.  Recently in Germany:  threatening (though not actually abusing) a kidnapper who had clammed up on where he’d stowed the child.  The perp didn't break in time; the child died.  And the courts ruled for the kidnapper:

http://www.medi1.com/player/player.php?i=4968464

Some background:

http://www.historynet.com/the-history-of-torture%E2%80%94why-we-cant-give-it-up.htm/1

-- Incidentally.  Jack Bauer and Mike Murphy  became acquainted  after they both retired.
For their beery reminiscences, click here:
http://murphybros.blogspot.com/2010/01/murphy-on-24.html

Watch Jack try -- and fail -- to break a particularly tough customer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74UO9CTpsGs&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Jack gets a taste of his own medicine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdDglzZqTI&feature=endscreen&NR=1

From the Nazi archives ... actual footage of Jack's exploits as a young Marine !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuF4-7KXPkI&feature=endscreen&NR=1