of sleep in a manner other than that which is inherently required by the interrogation. Likewise, we declare that the “necessity defense,” found in the Penal Law, cannot serve as a basis of authority for inter-rogation practices, or for directives to GSS investigators, allowing them to em-ploy interrogation practices of this kind. 

Solomonic Ruling

King Solomon said, “Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.”  The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Shin Bet had to be kind to its suspects.  U.S. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in North Vietnam who was viciously beaten, believed that the use of torture does not provide good intelligence. In addition, if I...

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