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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (37770)	7/9/2005 9:25:42 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Although I am strongly opposed to torture, I would never say never. I can imagine scenarios in addition to the one we mentioned where I would think torture justified. Not many, but some. If the police had credible information that al-Qaeda had smuggled a suitcase nuclear dirty bomb into the US and were planning to leave their safe house in some American city with it in two hours and set it off in the downtown of that city, but the person refused to give the location of the safe house or name the city, but demanded a lawyer and exercised his right to remain silent, I would certainly hope that those who had him in custody would use every possible means, including torture, to try to identify the city and locate the safe house. Sometime in the next ten years, that may not be as outlandish a scenario as we hope it is.