http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp Selected Op-Ed articles from the NLJ en-us 11/22/2009 Copyright 2009. Incisive Media US Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/newswire/nlj_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp The problem with the "ticking-bomb" argument for torture is that it's made to justify potential situations. But when justification can not be demonstrated in advance, the extraordinary measure should not be condoned. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202435704750&rss=nlj Within days of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, an image of the superhuman terrorist took shape in American society. Do not bring him to this country, and do not give him the benefit of the law. He is not like mortal men. It is thinking like this that has taken us so far astray. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202435706329&rss=nlj