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December 13, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Malawi: Diplomacy: National Security: Torture: GG2.net: Blackwill says there are instances when torture may be appropriate
Blackwill says there are instances when torture may be appropriate
Commenting on an issue that has roiled Washington and affected the US image abroad, Robert Blackwill, who was deputy national security adviser during Bush`s first term, said, "Of course torture should not be widespread and of course there should be extraordinarily stringent top-down requirements in this respect.” Robert Blackwill served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, Ambasssador to India, and as a Deputy National Security Advisor to Condoleezza Rice.
Blackwill says there are instances when torture may be appropriate
Torture may be necessary: former W House advisor
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News : Torture may be appropriate: Blackwill
Torture may be appropriate: Blackwill
A FORMER top adviser to President George W Bush on Iraq policy said on Monday there are instances when torture may be appropriate.
Commenting on an issue that has roiled Washington and affected the US image abroad, Robert Blackwill, who was deputy national security adviser during Bush`s first term, said, "Of course torture should not be widespread and of course there should be extraordinarily stringent top-down requirements in this respect.”
But never, I would not say never," he told the Council on Foreign Relations think tank.
Blackwill, answering questions from the audience, said that when he taught a class for executives at Harvard University`s John F Kennedy School of Government, the case which caused the most "confusion" involved a fictional detainee whose organization was threatening to detonate a nuclear weapon in New York City.
"You have reason to believe he knows where it is. Do you torture him? It does seem to me that circumstances matter here and I am not an absolutist in this regard," he said.
Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced questions in Europe over the US treatment of detainees and reports that the CIA has run secret prisons in Eastern Europe for its war on terror.
Blackwill, formerly Bush`s special envoy to Iraq and then ambassador to India, called Iran the greatest external threat to Iraq, which is fighting an insurgency and struggling to establish a democratic system.
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