You realize don't you, that when the terrorist walk through the canyon sized cracks in our security, opened up by the ACLU and other traitors, that the resultant post-carnage crackdown will end this argument for many generations. We who want to prevent terrorism (even if erring on the side of stringency) are actually doing more in the long run to protect human rights (by forestalling the clampdown that will follow a mighty terror attack) than all the bleeding heart traitors in the western world.
If we are torturing human beings because we suspect they might be our enemies then we have already fallen. Your reasoning could be used to support any tyranny. That's the downside of democracy, and God bless it. Makes it harder, but why else would the struggle be worth it? Stalin and Lenin proceeded on the basis that you can't make an omelet without cracking some eggs. Are we to settle for their standard of right and wrong? The ENDS DO NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS.