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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.
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Serious Intelligence Official as in Leon Panetta? 
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04-20-2009, 10:14 PM
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