There are far too many people that watch scenes in movies and television shows depicting enhanced interrogation or whatever and believes gullibly that these stories truly reflect the realities of the real world, where in virtually all cases they do not. In the movies, the producers of such, often want you to believe that for good to overcome evil, that good has to sometimes take a play from the bad guys' playbook in order to put him down, and that this action is of course justified, often because the bad guy has done all sorts of terrible, horrible deeds, that are far beyond what the good guy has done in return. The result, is good triumphs and evil is defeated, and thereby all is good. What rot!
The United States is a signatory to international treaties that specify that torture is forbidden, along with the fact that torture is outlawed in the country of the United States to begin with, yet America does torture certain suspects time and again, no matter what semantics it may use, and then uses their worldwide power, influence, and jurisprudence to argue that what has occurred isn't really torture, but "enhanced interrogation techniques" and other creative phrases that disgrace this country.
America sells the lie that torture is necessary against certain enemies because there are bad guys that do horrible things to America and its infrastructure, and thereby America needs to respond in kind, all in order to protect its citizens, its institutions, and its country. The very fact that America endorses the torturing of anybody for any reason is the very test of a country's constitutional government to begin with and our ignoble failure to such reflects that America is itself, a rogue State.
Certain clever pundits like to propose, ridiculous scenarios, such as the one about a certain evil person who has been caught and he alone has vital information that if extracted in time, will prevent an atomic bomb from detonating in NYC or similar, so that even a pacifist, so to speak, would recognized that in this type of dramatic situation, that surely the violation of one bad guy's civil rights, would be worth the saving of millions of lives. The problem with this type of fallacious reasoning is that America is trying to put forth the lie of "the ends justify the means", but in actuality the truth of the matter is, that the ends will reflect the means, so that those that believe safety lies in the torturing of others, will find that they have reaped what they have sow, when the blowback of such torture haunts them and their country to its very core.
The thing is that within any true justice system there is a road, that every country must have the determination to take, and those that veer from the straight and narrow path, to endorse circuitous reasoning, unequal justice in all of its many forms, aren't patriots, but are, in fact, the enemy within, and are therefore at mortal and moral odds with this last best hope of mankind.
Life itself, may only give you one or two true tests of your real character, and those that fail those tests, have lost all.