from matthewholmes
It is the ethical responsibility of the intelligence gathering to do EVERYTHING within his or her power to gather information that furthers the goals and needs of the United States. If water boarding or aggressive, even violent, iterrogations yields even one nugget of operational intelligence than it is validated in the sense that it may serve to save American lives sometime down the road.
for prosecution under a number of statutes.

For some reason, some folks seem to have an absolute fascination with torture - or at least with the word "torture" - and that on both extremes of the "debate".

This, BTW - "one nugget of operational intelligence than it is validated in the sense that it may serve to save American lives sometime down the road" - is very much a "1% solution".

Anyway, excuse me so that I can get back to my late afternoon sinew and nerve sheath yanking practice.