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...torture would be acceptable to force information from a prisoner where there is “very good evidence” that the prisoner has information that would save innocent lives and refuses to give it. Although he stated that he was not advocating torture, Dershowitz suggested a clinical method of torture using sterilized hypodermic needles to be inserted under the recalcitrant’s fingernails, which he and the interviewer agreed would be excruciating...
Demonstrating his constitutional expertise, Dershowitz said that a judge’s authorization would be needed for a specified method of torture—a mere police official could not authorize torture. Dershowitz reached into his knowledge of our collective subconscious and explained that everybody wants torture to be used in such circumstances and would be glad that torture saved innocent lives. He stated that torture is used in such circumstances and that in a democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have...
...point, as Morris was addressing his writing method, his wife Sylvia spoke about how a photo of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral had inspired her own biography of Roosevelt’s second wife...
Rosemary has seen an alternative method for settling family feuds: her husband's grandfather got so sick of the bickering over family possessions that he piled his things on the front lawn and set fire to them. She says she's grateful to her parents for handling their small estate so well. "Considering how there are six of us and we fought like cats and dogs as kids, it's pretty remarkable, but my parents always said they didn't want us to ever fight about money. They told us they wanted us to enjoy our inheritance while they were...
...Qaeda operatives. In the conversation, Tunisian-born Essid Sami Ben Khemais detailed two ways to unleash an attack. One involved an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate victims. At another point, Ben Khemais referred to a makeshift "gas bomb" whose "method," he said, had recently been refined by a Libyan professor...