FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Mon Oct 22 19:33:36 PDT 2001


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





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