Verkkoin the standard ticking bomb scenario, a suspect has been caught who possesses information that must be obtained quickly in order to avert huge civilian casualties. Verkkotorture aims to strip away from its victim all the qualities of human dignity that liberalism prizes. Verkkothis paper seeks to understand the affective work that the ‘ticking time bomb scenario’ and its imagined dramatization does in shaping how torture is. Verkkothe terror detainee bill passed by congress in the fall of 2006—the military commissions act (mca)—has implicitly condoned torture and effectively. Origins, usages and the contemporary discourse; Michelle farrell, university of liverpool; The prohibition of torture in exceptional. Verkkoin the course of their argument, the state's attorneys submitted the ‘ticking time bomb’ argument. A given suspect is arrested by the gss. He holds information respecting.