In our views, torture has a major negative impact on the peace and the development of states where it is systematically practiced, but torture also is responsible for collateral damage in the host countries of the victims of torture.
The F.B.I. agents viewed torture as counterproductive, unreliable, immoral, and legally indefensible.
Before President Trump took office, there had been some mystery about how he viewed torture.
Recent terrorists attacks may have led more people view torture as justifiable in the last year, but the way questions about torture are framed could also influence the poll results.
After a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which Mr. Mukasey refused to detail his views on torture, he submitted written answers to senators' questions that were worse than his testimony.
For precisely 50 minutes, considerably longer than he has appeared on television before in a single sitting, Mr. Gibbs fielded questions about the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, the president's views on torture and the $825 billion economic recovery package in Congress.
Jane Mayer's "The Memo," from 2006, follows Alberto J. Mora, the general counsel for the United States Navy, as he reads, in a series of legal memos, about the Bush Administration's evolving views on torture; alarmed, he writes a twenty-two-page memo of his own, laying out the legal case against it.
Mohammed proceeded to ask Kohlmann about his views on torture.
Yet your views on torture seem to have, to put it politely, evolved over the past year.
As for Larisa Alexandrovna's criticism of Prof. Dershowitz's views on torture, we leave it to our readers to decide if it is, as he claims, an ad hominem attack on him.
The remarks came after progressives and, in particular, the gay and lesbian community criticized the president-elect's decision to give such a prominent role to a pastor whose views on torture, gay rights, and stem cell research don't align with Obama's stated agenda.
