Just for a change of pace

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

But any serious intelligence official will tell you that your second paragraph just doesn't happen.

It happens on '24,' but doesn't actually happen in real life -- ticking time bomb scenarios are stuff of fantasy and television. Torture does not come up when deciding whether or not to torture or save Los Angeles. It's a great straw man for backing torture, however, that lots of people use when they don't have a real, substantive argument.

They might tell you it does not happen.
But there is no way they can tell you it
cannot happen. I seriously never thought
anything like NY could happen.

We had over 2000 people
killed and it could have been 10X that many.
If you are holding people that can give you
evidence about a plot going down, I dont see
how anyone can say absolutely not. Other airplanes
are about to be boarded and you can get info
using a method that is outlawed...?
There is no way I could say you cannot use this
method knowing that it could lead to the slaughter
of a bunch of innocent people living in a crowded
urban area.