Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview broadcast in Britain on Tuesday that interrogators can inflict pain to get critical information about an imminent terrorist threat. Referring generally to some controversial U.S. interrogation techniques as "so-called torture," Scalia asked, "Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?
February 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
One of the United States’ top judges said in an interview broadcast in Britain on Tuesday that interrogators can inflict pain to obtain critical information about an imminent terrorist threat.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that aggressive physical interrogation could be appropriate to learn where a bomb was hidden shortly before it was set to explode or to discover the plans or whereabouts of a terrorist group.
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