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Bob Cochran, who created the show with Surnow, admitted, "Most terrorism experts will tell you that the 'ticking time bomb' situation never occurs in real life, or very rarely.
If there is no "ticking time bomb" situation — say, where waterboarding a future Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (the 9/11 mastermind) could save thousands of civilians — then there is neither need for the C.I.A.'s exceptional methods, nor the harsh services of Jordan's General Intelligence Department.
"If we had a ticking bomb situation, and obviously, whatever was being used I felt was not sufficient, I would not hesitate to go to the president of the United States and request whatever additional authority I would need," Mr. Panetta said in his nomination hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"I believe we have a ticking time bomb situation here and a replacement program should be considered," Hall said.
I also believe that since torture is being used and would be authorized by any president in a real ticking bomb situation, democracy requires accountability rather than deniability.
Under this protocol, the FBI will only come to Apple for a ticking time bomb situation -- one which Dershowitz and Posner describe as justifying torture.
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Mr. Barrow said that while automation could make the robots complete their tasks faster, speed was less important than accuracy in bomb situations.
However, in view of the fre quency of these threats, one passenger‐ship operator is mak ing plans to have his crews trained to handle on‐board bomb situations in various parts of a ship.
Our soldiers in Iraq confront real "ticking time bomb" situations every day, in the form of improvised explosive devices, and any degree of "flexibility" about torture at the top drops down the chain of command like a stone -- the rare exception fast becoming the rule.
We had several more buzz bomb situations.
In almost every scene, the film uses a series of ticking time bomb situations with riddles to up the ante.
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