We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.
No conditions justify torture.
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.
Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
Sometimes we have to take measures to protect the innocent that we do not like. Severe interrogations are sometimes part of doing that.
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
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