Is torture ever justified in a post-9/11 world? FRONTLINE gathered a group of legal thinkers to answer this question. Several of them had studied the torture question together for a joint project between the Harvard Law School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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Is torture justified? It isn't necessarily an easy question.
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Can torture be justified in special circumstances? The right to life definitely prevails over the right to comfort, bodily integrity, absence of pain and so on. Where life is at stake, non-lethal torture is justified by any ethical calculus.
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Use of torture (an imprecise term for extreme physical and mental duress) raises two fundamental questions: Does it work? That is, does it produce the "actionable intelligence" that might save lives on the battlefield or at home? And can it be justified on moral and ethical grounds?
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Can torture in military interrogations of terror suspects ever be justified? RUBIN: If you capture the guy who has hidden a bomb that's going to kill 10 innocent people - say, schoolchildren - and the torturer genuinely feels he can get the information of where the bomb is, torture would be justified.
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Is torture ever justified? The war on terror is a fight against a very different kind of enemy. Does that justify different rules of engagement? from New...
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Mar 19, 2008 Is torture justified then, regardless of the legality or the dehumanizing effect, during times of “imminent danger”?
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BLITZER: Alan Dershowitz, a lot of our viewers will be surprised to hear that you think there are right times for torture. Is this one of those moments?
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John McCain, who pushed the White House to support a ban on torture, suggested Sunday that harsh treatment of a terrorism suspect who knew of an imminent attack would not violate international standards.
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Admin Told CIA Torture Justified “In Good Faith” Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project, said, “These documents supply further evidence, if any were needed, that the Justice Department authorized the CIA to torture prisoners in its custody.
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