massachusetts state police? perhaps. beyond the 19 techniques they re allowed in the army field manual? perhaps. but no one claims that, for example, the army film manual exhausts the universe of lawful techniques. so, you need to keep your options available because you can t predict what circumstances you might find yourself in the future. i had a phrase when i was director of the national security agency, we re going to play inside the foul lines, but there s going to be chalk dust on our cleats. go right up to the lines. exactly. if i don t, fareed, what i m doing is protecting me and my agency, not america. when thinking through this issue, remember that the u.s. government has mostly stopped using enhance interrogations since 2006. and has completely stopped since january 2009. since then, al qaeda has been battered, intelligence has been gathered and act aed on and