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Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002  No, it's because of the likelyhood of all of those conditions being met. Odds are, if you know who, what, and when, then the where should also be able to be found out through legal means. In addition, there is no guarantee that you would get an honest answer from waterboarding. For me, the ends don't justify the means. I seriously doubt that this situation would arise and meet your conditions.
Dirty Harry was a great movie. It has this basic scenario that you speak of. While entertaining, it is still fiction. |
But what if it did?
Many seriously doubted someone would fly a plane into an American building on a suicide mission.
The below clip from Gov. Romney is how I feel about the matter: That the president should have the ability to use his judgement on the situation when there is such a "ticking time bomb" scenario.
This will be an untenable position for the anti-American, anti-establishment individuals out there, more interested in terrorist's rights than American lives.
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