Panetta Hearing: You Don’t Need to Torture in the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Case

CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical “ticking bomb case” — OMG there’s a bomb hidden in Times Square that this detainee knows about we better waterboard him or everyone will die GET ME JACK BAUER — you shouldn’t torture More…