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Ridge told BBC News 24's HARDtalk: "By and large, as a matter of policy we need to state over and over again: we do not condone the use of torture to extract information from terrorists."
But he said it was "human nature" that torture might be employed in certain exceptional cases when time was very limited.
- "US 'should not rule out torture'," bbc news january 14, 2005
posted January 14, 2005 in politics. 2001