FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent

[Jonathan Fateley]

Well hell in those extreme circumstances. But we are hardly at that place
yet.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Declan McCullagh" <declan at well.com>
To: <measl at mfn.org>
Cc: <cypherpunks at 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 at 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
>