Nova Scotia – A leading Republican voice on national security matters says he doesn’t care what President-elect Donald Trump says, the United States will not reinstate waterboarding.
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Sen. John McCain of Arizona, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said Saturday at the Halifax International Security Forum that any attempt to bring back harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning, would quickly be challenged in court.
McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, says extreme interrogation techniques are banned under U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions.
During the campaign, Trump said he would push to change laws that prohibit waterboarding used against suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush administration.
McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, says waterboarding doesn’t work and makes it hard for the U.S. to claim moral superiority.
Since torture such as waterboarding is neither ethical nor effective, there is no reason to reinstate it.
Trump should tell McCain, Losers don’t get to dictate policy.
I hope he reinstates this and more severe methods.
Way to show our enimies our McCain.
It’s time to ride into the sunset already!
TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITIS!
VIVA LA TRUMP!
U are a loser Not even a war hero , we like veterans who were not injured to be our heroes
This feckless politician doesn’t get it, he has used and abused is “expertise” on turture since is he was turtured. The fact is, we can never win a war if we abide by the geneva convention rules and our enemy doesn’t, so trump: slaugher those terrorists, kill them and chop off their heads, and then we will win this war fast.
The balance in the Senate is both important and delicate. One could imagine Mr. McCain and some others crossing the aisle. (After all, McCain will never run again, he can do as he will for six years.) That would not be a Good Thing for the GOP