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Panetta Hearing: You Don’t Need to Torture in the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Case

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com found this 2/6/2009 on washingtonindependent.com

CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical “ticking bomb case” — OMG there’s a bomb hidden in Times Square that this detainee knows about we better waterboard him or everyone will die GET ME JACK BAUER— you shouldn’t torture ...