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Dershowitz: Make Torture An Option
Civil Libertarian Believes Torture Will Be Used In War On Terrorism
And He Wants Specific Procedures In Place
Watch Sunday at 7 PM ET/PT
NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2002
CBS
Alan Dershowitz
(CBS) Is there a place in the U.S. justice system for torture?
Alan Dershowitz, the civil libertarian defender of O.J Simpson,
believes the law should sanction torture so it may be applied in
certain cases, such as terrorist acts.
In a report to be broadcast Sunday on 60 Minutes, Dershowitz tells
Correspondent Mike Wallace that torture is inevitable. �We can�t just
close our eyes and pretend we live in a pure world,� he says.
After the events of Sept. 11, with many al Qaida members in custody,
Dershowitz says he wants to bring the debate to the forefront. He
gave the �ticking bomb� scenario - a person refusing to tell when and
where a bomb will go off � as an example of the type of case
warranting torture.
The FBI has anonymously leaked to the press the belief inside the
bureau that torture may be an option in these trying times. But Lewis
Schiliro, former New York bureau director, warns of problems with
torture.
�If anybody had the ability to prevent the events of Sept. 11� they
would have gone to whatever length�The problem becomes, where do we
draw that line?� he tells Wallace.
Torture is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution, says Human Rights
Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth, who also says it�s not
reliable. He points out that an Islamic terrorist, convicted in
America for terrorist plots he admitted to after torture by
authorities in the Philippines, had also admitted to being the
Oklahoma City bomber.
�People will say anything under torture,� says Roth, adding that
resorting to torture degrades humanity and the idea of democracy.
�We, in many important respects, become like the terrorists,� he
tells Wallace. �They will have won. Our democracy will have lost.�
This is a na�ve viewpoint, says Dershowitz. �If anybody has any doubt
that our CIA, over time, has taught people to torture, has encouraged
torture, has probably itself tortured in extreme cases, I have a
bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.�
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