I don't think using torture is ever considered desireable, by anybody, but it is considered to be necessary on occasion. That's just a fact. And it's a fact in every country on the planet - somewhere, somehow that contingency has been considered and provided for.

The catch is that some individual has to have the power to make that decision, and be accountable for it. And it's always the accountability issue that seems to come up lacking in the end, unfortunately.

I'm surprised nobody commented on the "justifiability" of the most prevalent method for extracting information from high-value targets these days (as I mentioned it in my previous post on this same thread): Drugs.

Is using drugs to safely and reliably extract information from a person considered "torture" too?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...26/torture.htm

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