Well hell in those extreme circumstances. But we are hardly at that place yet. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com> To: <measl@mfn.org> Cc: <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: CDR: Re: FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:13:51PM -0500, measl@mfn.org wrote:
It seems that in todays hyper-"patriotic" environment, this is would be not only an "accepted practice", but even a _preferred_ one by many Amerikans :-(
Yep. It's going to be a hard political sell to insist that yes, this indicted hijacker who was caught trying to bring down another plane and was captured with detailed plans of a planned nuclear bomb attack in the next three hours shouldn't be, um, strongly encouraged to turn over the passphrase to "nuke-location-gps-coordinates.txt.gpg"
-Declan