Is purposeless torture moral?

[Minimalist]

I think it may be morally justified then to try to torture the information out of him.

http://www.livescience.com/4651-torture-...rking.html

But aside from the moral and legal implications, does torture ever produce reliable intelligence?

"That's the impossible question," said Darius Rejali, a political scientist at Reed College in Oregon.

As a rule, torture is not an effective method of extracting information from prisoners, most experts agree.

"If anything useful came out these interrogations in Iraq, we would have heard about it," said Alfred McCoy, a University of Wisconsin-Madison historian and author of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror" (Holt Paperbacks, 2006).

You'll have to do a lot better than quote a miserable fuck like Dick Cheney.