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Torture revisited. What?? You think we stopped????

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“The fact that an act is undertaken to prevent a threatened terrorist attack, rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse, would be relevant to a reasonable observer in measuring the outrageousness of the act,” said Brian A. Benczkowski, a deputy assistant attorney general, in a letter, which had not previously been made public.

The above from the Justice Department giving Bush the legal authority to water board....

As can be seen, in order to justify torture, Bush (and Hillary too), say that they only would do it to prevent a terrorist attack. Evidently, somebody knows something that, if revealed, would save American lives..

However, the logic has an obvious gap. I can't believe that I'm the only human on earth who can see it, but I do. Maybe you can splain it to me.

How do we know that this person knows something?

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I heard they have only water boarded a very few of the very top leader terrorists so if that is true I suppose that is how they 'know' they 'know'
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You torture your own citizens to death! Thats more than waterboarding. They are killers! Sorry, off track ex!
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How do we know that this person knows something?
Somebody else who was being tortured happened to remember their name and fingered them in an attempt to give the torturers something that would make them stop. I once had a visit from a pair of FBI agents because some weather underground wannabe guy who used to live in the same rooming house as me apparently remembered my name.
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