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    Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden Mar 15

    Listen, you can defend torture, or you can defend the Constitution. Not both. The 8th Amendment explicitly forbids torture with all forms of cruel and unusual punishment. To defend torture is to attack the Constitution.

    7:29 AM - 15 Mar 2018
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      2. dt christensen‏ @sublime_carrot Mar 15
        Replying to @Snowden

        It's a tough call Edward. What is more morally wrong? Torturing someone you know has info that will kill 1000's or doing nothing and 1000's are killed.

        9 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
      3. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden Mar 15
        Replying to @sublime_carrot

        It's not. @CIA tortured people for years thinking it worked. The Senate read 6,300,000 classified CIA files—years of records—to determine if it was true. They found torture never helped. Never saved a life or stopped an attack.https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-torture-report-20141210-story.html …

        6 replies 59 retweets 223 likes
      4. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden Mar 15
        Replying to @Snowden @sublime_carrot @CIA

        Even if torture was effective—and the CIA proved it is not—torture is wrong. It is a barbarous violation of human rights, and our condemnation of it is what separates us from those we rightly call monsters. A government that tortures has no legitimacy.

        15 replies 70 retweets 277 likes
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      2. Simon Levermann‏ @SimonLevermann Mar 15
        Replying to @Snowden

        But only for citizens, not for FORRINERS ;)

        26 replies 1 retweet 148 likes
      3. Stacy O'Neill‏ @StacyOh64 Mar 15
        Replying to @SimonLevermann @Snowden

        It's a war crime under the Geneva Convention.

        20 replies 14 retweets 428 likes
      4. Simon Levermann‏ @SimonLevermann Mar 15
        Replying to @StacyOh64 @Snowden

        Yes, but when you're not officially at war, how are you going to commit war crimes? Note: I'm quite aware of this and being facetious, I do not support torture.

        16 replies 4 retweets 135 likes
      5. Kelli  🌈 🍸 🌹‏ @imkwazy Mar 15
        Replying to @SimonLevermann @StacyOh64 @Snowden

        We’re bombing 8 countries. What do you call it?

        18 replies 6 retweets 166 likes
      6. Max B‏ @LeSwiss Mar 15
        Replying to @imkwazy @SimonLevermann and

        the US have been not at war for how long now... decades... killing how many people...?

        6 replies 3 retweets 44 likes
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      2. Nino Stocker‏ @jonnatrab Mar 15
        Replying to @Snowden

        We're not torturing citizens!! Think they are called "enemy combatants"!!

        41 replies 2 retweets 80 likes
      3. VanRichter‏ @VinceBlack151 Mar 15
        Replying to @jonnatrab @Snowden

        Per international law, that we helped craft, torture is illegal regardless of clarification.

        5 replies 9 retweets 228 likes
      4. Nappinnai Nallan‏ @NappinnaiNC Mar 15
        Replying to @VinceBlack151 @jonnatrab @Snowden

        You're right. Torture is a violation of human rights. US is the only developed nation that still executes ppl.

        1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
      5. VanRichter‏ @VinceBlack151 Mar 15
        Replying to @NappinnaiNC @jonnatrab @Snowden

        Also a tragedy. Especially considering how many innocent people we put to death.

        0 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. Testtube65‏ @testtube65 Mar 15
        Replying to @Snowden

        The constitution does not apply to enemy combatants

        15 replies 3 retweets 54 likes
      3. petite blondie‏ @petite_blondie Mar 15
        Replying to @testtube65 @Snowden

        No, but it does the Geneva Convention, among otherspic.twitter.com/B8mASHLASI

        12 replies 15 retweets 187 likes
      4. Jack‏ @Cr4ckerJ4cks Mar 15
        Replying to @petite_blondie @testtube65 @Snowden

        genuine question. does that apply to people who have committed atrocities and crimes against humanity such as, say, blowing up innocents in the name of religion?

        18 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      5. petite blondie‏ @petite_blondie Mar 15
        Replying to @Cr4ckerJ4cks @testtube65 @Snowden

        https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-arabs-dont-want-us-in-syria-mideast-conflict-oil-intervention/ …

        4 replies 5 retweets 36 likes
      6. Max B‏ @LeSwiss Mar 15
        Replying to @petite_blondie @Cr4ckerJ4cks and

        thanks. good article....

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      7. petite blondie‏ @petite_blondie Mar 15
        Replying to @LeSwiss @Cr4ckerJ4cks and

        You are welcome; and a very clarifying one

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. Max B‏ @LeSwiss Mar 15
        Replying to @petite_blondie @Cr4ckerJ4cks and

        the many stories behind terrorism and other forms of extremism

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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