Standard of Justice

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From this yesterdays CBC story on trial for accused in the 9/11 attacks9/11 charges:

Note that according to the prosecution, "American standards of justice are to be followed..." and the admission of evidence from aggressive interrogation methods such as e.g. "waterboarding" (in other words, torture) is left up to the tribunal's judge.

From that, it appears that the "American standard of justice" may from now on. potentially and in general, include torture as one of the legitimate ways of collecting evidence (of course, subject to american standard of procedure being properly followed). The accused would have these legal options: 1) die under torture (really, they don't know that the torturer isn't really going to torture them to death; or 2) confess and be executed based on his confession.

Wonderful strategy. But not original. Reminds me of something - maybe, something to do with the medieval Spain??

Finally - with strategies like this - how can we ever be sure that we are on the "right" side?