I don't think there is anything hush-hush about the Viet Nam war anymore. I ran a team which electronically monitored infiltration along the Cambodian border into the Delta. Fortunately/unfortunately a claymore ambush by a SEAL team left very few prisoners. In typical warfare, very few prisoners have valuable tactical knowledge that we must obtain to save lives which might justify torture. Heck, we knew more about what the VC "mules" were doing than they did. An effective ground sensor pattern along a trail could ascertain how fast they were moving and how many there were. A team would work a specific part of the trail continuously and they were very predictable. After a while we knew what team was on which trail each night. What few prisoners we captured were seriously wounded and eventually turned over to AID (read Neil Sheehan's A Bright and Shining Lie about John Paul Vann to see "AID" involvement in South Vietnam). The US ran no torture camps in the jungle. "AID" moved into a village, gave them a few tractors, brought in improved rice seed, and, in the process found people more than willing to talk about VC activity in the area. The first rule of an insurgent warfare, which we have forgotten since Vietnam is to win the hearts and minds of the people. We were moderately successful in Vietnam. I would venture to say that AID in Vietnam was much more successful in gathering valuable long-term intelligence than a wholesale Administration declaration that the Geneval Convention no longer applies. We should listen to our young (Harrison), if torture is necessary, at least be discreet and secretive about it.