Scalia: Law not ‘so clear at all’ on limits of terrorist treatment

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview that aired Friday it can be hard to rule out using torture extreme measures to extract information from suspected terrorists under difficult circumstances.

He said he does not “think it’s so clear at all,” The Associated Press reported, especially in cases where millions of lives are at stake.

He reportedly cited the example of a ticking nuclear time bomb.

He also reportedly said that the Constitution says nothing that would seem to prohibit the extreme treatment of suspected terrorists.

{mosads}The interview was recorded Wednesday, one day after Senate Democrats released a report on the CIA’s interrogation tactics after 9/11. They found that those tactics sometimes amounted to torture and that the interrogation program was more widespread and brutal than previously known.

The conversation with Scalia aired on a Swiss radio network.