Severity of torture needs to be determined before legality can be known

David B. Rivkin, partner with Baker Hostetler LLP, discusses the morality of coercive techniques at the Committee on the Judiciary Hearing. The severity of tortures needs to be defined by experts and lawmakers. (0:35)
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United Kingdom doesn't believe coercion works

Phillipe Sands QC, professor of law at the University College London, discusses how the United Kingdom does not use coercion with prisoners in the Committee on the Judiciary Hearing today. The UK has found it to be detrimental to their cause and extended the conflict. (1:01)
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Torture is illegal

Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law discusses torture at the Committee on Judiciary hearing. Cohn says that torture does not work and the best way to get information out of prisoner or suspected terrorist is through other means. (0:30)
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