Actually, torturing terrorist IS unconstitutional, especially if that terrorist is a US citizen. Not probably. They are protected by the 8th amendment, which is no cruel and unusual punishment, and judicial review, which allows due process. He also argues how letting innocent people die because you couldn’t ‘apply the electrodes’ is cowardly and immoral. I could sleep at night knowing that I didn’t torture someone without a guarantee of any new lifesaving information arising. I wouldn’t be able to sleep knowing we had all this other information and the government never acted, that our focus on torturing this person led us to drive millions to their
Actually, torturing terrorist IS unconstitutional, especially if that terrorist is a US citizen. Not probably. They are protected by the 8th amendment, which is no cruel and unusual punishment, and judicial review, which allows due process. He also argues how letting innocent people die because you couldn’t ‘apply the electrodes’ is cowardly and immoral. I could sleep at night knowing that I didn’t torture someone without a guarantee of any new lifesaving information arising. I wouldn’t be able to sleep knowing we had all this other information and the government never acted, that our focus on torturing this person led us to drive millions to their