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Hi Rich-
…one question I haven’t seen answered is this: how can McCain (etc.) simultaneously hold that a) torture “doesn’t work” but that b) in the ticking time bomb scenario, “you do what you have to do”? Aren’t those core premises fundamentally at odds? And if such sloppy thinking infuses our (potential) policy on a matter of paramount importance (intelligence gathering in the GWOT), then doesn’t that counsel for caution?