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Cumol  ·  3634 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Even If Torture Doesn't Work In The Real World, TV Has Us Convinced It Does

    ...but they should be held accountable for failing to use the best methods for information discovery when they had every chance to.

So, in a hypothetical world where torture IS a good method to get real information out of terrorists. Would it be okay to torture terrorists?

Do we charge a CIA agent or officer who had the chance to torture a (possible) terrorist for information but decided against it?