Torture Not an Option for the Civilized
Something deeply frightening and soul killing is happening to this country when a Times staff writer (“The Truth About Truth Serum,” Nov. 5) can mention in an offhand way that unnamed U.S. government officials are considering extraditing four men detained for possible links to the Sept. 11 attacks “to a country without legal restrictions on torture.”
Torture is not a civilized option; it is a crime against humanity. A government that sends men to be tortured is no better than those who do the torturing. Even to consider it is a scandal.
The officials who did so should be exposed and fired.
If there are people in our government eager to use the “war on terrorism” to become soulless terrorizers themselves, we need to stop them, quickly.
TERENCE CANNON
Santa Monica
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