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The Myth of the Ticking Time Bomb

By Alfred W. McCoy, The Progressive. Posted September 14, 2006.


A hypothetical ticking time bomb--the often-used justification for torturing detainees--falls apart under close examination.
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Alfred W. McCoy, the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author most recently of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror."

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