When it comes to opinions on the use of torture, survey organizations report an evenly divided public.

The Obama administration is using a debate over interrogation methods to shift the United States to a radical new concept of international law.

For the past ten years, pollsters have tracked the opinions of Americans as they have wrestled with the difficult questions associated with the post-9/11 world. They have probed opinions on preemptive warfare, profiling, torture, assassination, domestic surveillance, and of course, the war itself. More than a thousand of these questions have been reviewed for a new AEI Public Opinion Study.

Is torture ever justified? Americans do not appear to have come to a broad consensus on that timely question in the war on terror.

The cheerless creatures who rule the Islamic republic of Iran have developed a particularly wicked use of torture.

After 9/11, serious questions were raised as to the methods that might be used to extract information from terrorists who might threaten U.S. national interests. What constitutes torture? Is it ever justified? What are the legal procedures that the U.S. government can put in place regarding this issue? Jean Bethke...

A Justice Department memo considers the definition of torture under federal criminal laws; its critics have attacked the memo's conclusions.

This was CBS's first and only debate--and it showed.