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Changelog: On Torture

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researchok11/04/2010 4:05:59 pm PDT

re: #366 Obdicut

Clearly, torture in that case would be hard to justify. Odds are pretty good the suspect would lie. As I noted early, I am against torture with very few exceptions.

On the other hand, suppose a suspect is caught and boasts he knows of a big attack to come. There might be a case to justify torture to extract verifiable information.

See Bruce Anderson: We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty