Just for a change of pace

[Cannon Shell]

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.

Brian how the hell do you know that? Because some guy trying to sell a book says so? This is a subject that we (hopefully) will never have to have to deal with firsthand.