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Washington, Oct. 16: Senator Hillary Clinton has said that she supports legalizing the torture of a captured terror suspect who knows about “an imminent threat to millions of Americans”.

This, she said was an exception to her opposition to torture.

“If we're going to be preparing for the kind of improbable but possible eventuality, then it has to be done within the rule of law,” the New York Daily News quoted Hillary as saying in a phone interview on Friday.

She said the “ticking time bomb” scenario represented a narrow exception to her opposition to torture as morally wrong, ineffective and dangerous to American soldiers.

“In the event we were ever confronted with having to interrogate a detainee with knowledge of an imminent threat to millions of Americans, then the decision to depart from standard international practices must be made by the President, and the President must be held accountable,” she said.

“That very, very narrow exception within very, very limited circumstances is better than blasting a big hole in our entire law,” she added. (ANI)