Why don't I trust these quotes?

From an AP article on how our government is trying to find new and better ways to question brown people:

An elite US interrogation unit will conduct "scientific research" to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.

"It is going to do scientific research on that long-neglected area," Blair told the House Intelligence Committee, without elaborating on the nature of the techniques being tested.

Why doesn't that "scientific research" part fill me with a lot of hope? Sure sure, they say that their charter requires them to abide by the US Army Field Manual, but... US interrogators haven't exactly inspired the most confidence in their.. let's say... humanitarian concerns with people we deem to be bad Muslims. Plus, I'm not sure I'd say that research into interrogation has been a "long-neglected area." I'm pretty sure we've just done almost a decade's worth of research into the field.

Still, I must applaud them. This is a much better policy than their previous "Did the Spanish Inquisition or Khmer Rouge do it? Yes? Good. But did they do it to elicit false confessions? Yes? Even better." line of interrogation based scientific research. Baby steps.