Yet the missing part <ticking time bomb scenario> reads:
MACCALLUM: The argument for having the discussion now is there is always the possibility that a suspect could be in custody and an attack could be imminent.
PETRAEUS: Well I mean that’s always the debate — the doomsday scenario.
I would be happy to leave that again with our judicial system to determine whether there might be an exception that would require extraordinary but very rapid approval to deal with.
But for the vast majority of the cases, our experience downrange, if you will, is that techniques that are in the army field manual that lays out how we treat detainees, how we interrogate them, those techniques work. That is our experience in this business.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/29/petraeus-values/
"Leave it to our
judicial system to determine...".
Not quite so cut-and-dried, is it?