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I guess Trump will find a CIA director and an Attorney General that will go along with Waterboarding.
"If Donald Trump is serious about wanting to waterboard terrorists, he'd better bring his own bucket, former CIA director Michael Hayden says, because the CIA isn't going down that road again.
Hayden's pithy line, which he first uttered in a Showtime documentary and repeated to NBC News, underscores a serious issue: the GOP frontrunner has vowed to bring back torture if he becomes president, but current and former CIA officials say the agency feels so burned by what happened when its post 9/11 interrogation program was exposed that it would refuse any such orders.
"Multiple investigations, grand juries, presidential condemnations, and congressional star chambers have a way of doing that to you," Hayden, who was CIA director at the end of the George W. Bush administration, told NBC News. "
This whole discussion is irrelevant in the Middle East. Why ? Because we routinely hand suspects over to the Iraqis or Kurds or Saudis or Jordanians and what do think happens then.
Hint - they confess.
I don't think we should torture people but what we (Hayden above) turn a blind eye towards is more or less the same as if we did it ourselves. Why do think all the dissenters blame to the US for everything that goes on in the ME? We never take the high road.
This whole discussion is irrelevant in the Middle East. Why ? Because we routinely hand suspects over to the Iraqis or Kurds or Saudis or Jordanians and what do think happens then.
Hint - they confess.
I don't think we should torture people but what we (Hayden above) turn a blind eye towards is more or less the same as if we did it ourselves. Why do think all the dissenters blame to the US for everything that goes on in the ME? We never take the high road.
We have handed some over to Morocco and they went back on their word putting released detainees in prison but I don't know that they are tortured.
We sure have become softees. So Isis chops off heads and American liberals want to bake a cake? Where is Vlad the impaler when u need him.
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