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"President Donald ***** said he wants to "fight fire with fire" when it comes to stopping terrorism, suggesting that he could be open to bringing back torture because he "absolutely" believes it works.
By reinstating enhanced interrogation, ***** would violate a US law ratified by the Senate in 2015 and go against the view of Defense Secretary James Mattis. CIA Director Mike Pompeo told senators earlier this month that he wouldn't sanction the use of torture, though he later said he would consider bringing back waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation measures under certain circumstances.
In an interview with ABC News, ***** said "people at the highest level of intelligence" have told him that torture does work, something military experts have refuted. He went on to say, however, that he will listen to what his Cabinet secretaries have to say about the issue.
"When ISIS is doing things that no one has ever heard of, since medieval times, would I feel strongly about waterboarding?" ***** said. "As far as I'm concerned, we have to fight fire with fire."
*****'s argument was that ISIS is beheading people and posting the videos online, but that the United States is "not allowed to do anything."
"We're not playing on an even field," ***** said. "I want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally. But do I feel it works? Absolutely, I feel it works."
********s and **********s alike have shot down the idea of bringing back torture methods that were used by the Bush administration after the ********* attacks on September 11, 2001.
Pompeo said earlier this month that he would "absolutely not" restart the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation tactics that fall outside of Army Field Manuals.
"Moreover, I can't imagine I would be asked that by the President-elect," Pompeo said during his confirmation hearing.
But in a series of written responses to questions from members of the Senate intelligence committee, Pompeo later said that while current permitted interrogation techniques are limited to those contained in the Army Field Manual, he was open to making changes to that policy.
The Senate voted overwhelming to ban torture across the US government in 2015, codifying a ban President Barack ***** issued by executive order shortly after he was sworn in in 2009. ***** then signed the updated defense authorization bill into law.
Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota **********, said the use of torture is "settled law" and that "Congress has spoken."
The Senate intelligence committee produced a nearly 7,000-page classified report on torture, detention and interrogation after the George W. Bush administration brought back the practice. The authors of the report found the practice was ineffective and did not produce actionable intelligence.
"Reconstituting this appalling program would compromise our values, our morals and our standing as a world leader -- this cannot happen," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California ********, said in a statement on Wednesday. "We can't base national security policies on what works on television -- policies must be grounded in reality."
Look at what this man is already doing to our country everywhere; you all see the threads. Hog***** has been taken over by Death Eaters; he must be impeached! Torture has not been effective, yet this man thinks he can just lie to everyone's face like what he did about the crowd size at his inauguration.
The people must rise and have their voices heard, no matter the censorship he and his supporters try to implement. The end of his presidency through impeachment must be this year, and it must begin now!
"President Donald ***** said he wants to "fight fire with fire" when it comes to stopping terrorism, suggesting that he could be open to bringing back torture because he "absolutely" believes it works.
By reinstating enhanced interrogation, ***** would violate a US law ratified by the Senate in 2015 and go against the view of Defense Secretary James Mattis. CIA Director Mike Pompeo told senators earlier this month that he wouldn't sanction the use of torture, though he later said he would consider bringing back waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation measures under certain circumstances.
In an interview with ABC News, ***** said "people at the highest level of intelligence" have told him that torture does work, something military experts have refuted. He went on to say, however, that he will listen to what his Cabinet secretaries have to say about the issue.
"When ISIS is doing things that no one has ever heard of, since medieval times, would I feel strongly about waterboarding?" ***** said. "As far as I'm concerned, we have to fight fire with fire."
*****'s argument was that ISIS is beheading people and posting the videos online, but that the United States is "not allowed to do anything."
"We're not playing on an even field," ***** said. "I want to do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally. But do I feel it works? Absolutely, I feel it works."
********s and **********s alike have shot down the idea of bringing back torture methods that were used by the Bush administration after the ********* attacks on September 11, 2001.
Pompeo said earlier this month that he would "absolutely not" restart the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation tactics that fall outside of Army Field Manuals.
"Moreover, I can't imagine I would be asked that by the President-elect," Pompeo said during his confirmation hearing.
But in a series of written responses to questions from members of the Senate intelligence committee, Pompeo later said that while current permitted interrogation techniques are limited to those contained in the Army Field Manual, he was open to making changes to that policy.
The Senate voted overwhelming to ban torture across the US government in 2015, codifying a ban President Barack ***** issued by executive order shortly after he was sworn in in 2009. ***** then signed the updated defense authorization bill into law.
Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota **********, said the use of torture is "settled law" and that "Congress has spoken."
The Senate intelligence committee produced a nearly 7,000-page classified report on torture, detention and interrogation after the George W. Bush administration brought back the practice. The authors of the report found the practice was ineffective and did not produce actionable intelligence.
"Reconstituting this appalling program would compromise our values, our morals and our standing as a world leader -- this cannot happen," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California ********, said in a statement on Wednesday. "We can't base national security policies on what works on television -- policies must be grounded in reality."
Look at what this man is already doing to our country everywhere; you all see the threads. Hog***** has been taken over by Death Eaters; he must be impeached! Torture has not been effective, yet this man thinks he can just lie to everyone's face like what he did about the crowd size at his inauguration.
The people must rise and have their voices heard, no matter the censorship he and his supporters try to implement. The end of his presidency through impeachment must be this year, and it must begin now!
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