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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (229770)	5/4/2007 10:52:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

You've made it a black and white issue of using torture as opposed to standing by and allowing innocents to die No, I didn't. You read all that into what I said. I didn't say that. I said a) "ticking bomb" cases do exist, they are not a fabrication of the movies and b) the arresting officer who faces a ticking bomb suspect has to try something, because otherwise innocents will die. I did not say he had to try torture. I said would very likely use methods of pressure, such as intimidation, trickery and threats. I said he might be tempted to try torture, especially if he believed innocents were about to die, maybe in minutes. What I am saying is that this is a real issue and a hard issue. I am protesting the efforts of some on this board to brush the problem away on the grounds that "ticking bomb" suspects occur only in the movies and everybody knows that torture never works. It seems to me this is the just the opposite of making the issue black and white.

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