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Pre-emptive Torture
...is I think the whole point.
The ticking time-bomb scenario is a smoke screen. In real life situations, if there are enough specifics available to know that the person in custody is CERTAIN to have the specific information needed for immediate action, it is likely there already is enough specifics for immediate action.
With pre-emptive torture, it's like data mining, collect a bunch of guys hopefully correctly identified as bad guys, then torture them with the hope one of them will spill some useful piece of information. This is humanity at it's worst.
As a side note MediaMatters has extensively documented BOs self-glorified ignorance.