"Listen, I think it's very facile for people to say, 'Oh, torture is
terrible.' You posit the situation where a person that you know for sure
knows the location of a nuclear bomb that has been planted in Los
Angeles and will kill millions of people. You think it's an easy
question? You think it's clear that you cannot use extreme measures to
get that information out of that person?
"It seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be
absurd to say you couldn't, I don't know, stick something under the
fingernail, smack him in the face. It would be absurd to say you
couldn't do that."
"I don't know what article of the Constitution that would contravene."
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
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