In this chapter the author addresses three questions: What methods of interrogation should the world “torture” connote? What criterion should be used to determine how coercive an interrogation should be permitted, whether or not it should be deemed torture? And what should be the legal regime for the application of the criterion to particular interrogations? In exploring these questions, he addresses the objections from civil libertarians: that torture is always wrong and that torture is ineffective; and responds to the opinions of leading scholars in this area.
