Is it permissible to medicate, or drug, them to produce a more fruitful interrogation? Would that be considered torture, and out of bounds, even though the prisoners aren't American citizens, nor on American soil? Would it matter that the drugs administered would have no lastings negative effects? It seems a bit distasteful to consider the possibility of messing with the prisoners in this way to obtain valuable information, even life saving dislosures of terrorist plots, but if you're certain there's no pain and permanent effects, what the heck, why not? No harm, no foul? Yet it does seem dishonorable...

One striking aspect of the CIA interrogation video of Johnie Walker at the Mazar-e-Sharif prison is that the CIA interrogators (including the one who was killed soon afterwards) clearly were acting humanely and without any hint at all of torture or abuse of the Taliban prisoners.