HILLARY'S TORTURE EXCEPTION
October 21, 2006 -- If an underling of Osama bin Laden were captured and American intelligence had reason to suspect he possessed intimate knowledge of a plot to unleash nerve gas over New York City in just a few short hours, who would you want prying the relevant details from the terrorist?
A CIA bureaucrat commanded not to offend detainees' sensitivities? Or someone like Jack Bauer of "24," whose chief concern is the lives of more than 8 million innocent people?
That's the debate at the center of a spat between Sens. John McCain and Hillary Clinton.
The dustup began when Clinton said recently that she felt torture ought to be legal if the suspect had knowledge of "an imminent threat to millions of Americans."
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