Coming from the guy who said he wanted to kill Snowden, We wouldn’t expect Trump to be much of a libertarian-leaning guy. And we’d be right, according to Vox:
Donald Trump opened the door to torturing terrorism suspects if he’s elected president, telling ABC News Sunday that waterboarding “doesn’t sound very severe” given the barbarism of ISIS.
Here’s what Trump said in a telephone interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
JON KARL: Would President Trump authorize waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques, even torture?
DONALD TRUMP: I would be inclined to be very strong. When people are chopping off other people’s heads and then we’re worried about waterboarding and we can’t because … I have no doubt that that works. I have absolutely no doubt.
JON KARL: So you’d bring back water-boarding?
DONALD TRUMP: You mentioned waterboarding, which was such a big subject. I haven’t heard that term in a year now, because when you see the other side chopping off heads, waterboarding doesn’t sound very severe.
Mr. Trump needs to do some fact checking. Waterboarding has never worked, failing to yield any reliable data. It’s the needless torture of other human beings that doesn’t even produce anything beneficial. If he’s running for president he should know that.
Source: Vox
I’m down with that.
Yeah no thanks, i’d believe in the existence of multidimensional reptillian aliens and/or demons amongst us before id even consider to consider the honestly of “elections” friggin theatrical puppets
Gonna say trump next
I LOVE IT….. When warranted.
Floyd James I was 100% with him until the gun comments sounds like a democrat
Our vets are heroes and should be treated as such what a said time for Americans who love this country. It takes thousands of vets to protect us and one ego maniac to try to destroy us shame on those who would rather protect their jobs and their party rather than our vets and our country shame on them. America wake up and speak out before that freedom is also taken away from us. God bless america and Americans.
Those who are formally trained in interrogation techniques consistently agree that the so-called “enhanced” methods that were commonly employed by the CIA during the Bush/Cheney years were totally inappropriate and tactically inane.
These techniques are commonly used by foreign extremist groups and dictatorial regimes that are trying to get prisoners to confess to crimes that the interrogators know were not committed, i.e., they are not interested in obtaining information, their goal is the confession itself.
In other words, water-boarding is an excellent interrogation technique if your goal is:
a) a false confession
b) retribution
But if your primary objective to obtain useful intelligence, it’s going to be counterproductive.
Of course, Trump doesn’t really care one way or the other.