I have a question for Patricia Gray and Grady Cook, about their letters to the editor on Dec. 18: What were their feelings on 9/11, after that terrible day? Torture, for me, became a need. When a group of terrorists did what they did, the CIA had every right to find and do everything possible, including torture, to never let it happen again, even if it only saves one American life.
Paul Moscato
A response from one of our members in the December 28, 2014 issue:
Extending Paul Moscato’s sense of torture ethics (letter, Dec. 21), as expressed in his last sentence, to situations other than 9/11:
When a group of American bomber pilots did what they did to North Vietnam and to Iraq (countries that had not attacked us), the intelligence services of those countries had every right to find and do everything possible, including torture of downed aviators, to stop the American onslaught, even if it only saved one Vietnamese or Iraqi life.
Scott Smith
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