Another author who trivializes torture because they think it's a viable way to get reliable informations... Yeah, it's a common trope but it's now well known that it just leads the ones being tortured to spill anything, true or false infos, as long as it makes everything stops.
If you have a character that can insert fears into one's mind with magic, why not having them extract memories without pain? That's more believable and doesn't make readers question the morality of the good guys' side.