New CIA Head Pompeo Considers Lifting Ban On Waterboarding (VIDEO)

Mike Pompeo is President Donald Trump’s pick to head up the C.I.A., and he has said he is open to reviewing the current ban on waterboarding. Although the form of torture is currently banned, Pompeo has said he will consider it:

“If experts believed current law was an impediment to gathering vital intelligence to protect the country. I would want to understand such impediments and whether any recommendations were appropriate for changing current law.”

Also in a press release back in September 2014, Pompeo released a press release criticizing then President Barack Obama for:

“…ending our interrogation program in 2009 to trying to close Guantanamo Bay…”

he also advocated torture by saying:

“Even when we captured Ahmed Abu Khatallah, one of the people behind the Benghazi attacks, the President insisted we try him in criminal court rather than interrogate him in an effort to win the war and save American lives.”

Obama ordered a report into the use of torture which has been sealed for years to come. It is a human rights issue, and obviously, people have mixed feelings about the effectiveness of torture.

Some people believe when being tortured, a prisoner will say anything, including telling the interrogators exactly what they think they want to hear – just so the torture stops. In this way it is not only a violation of human rights, but it also may lead to incorrect intelligence.

We already know Trump’s position on torture. He told a South Carolina crowd in Feb 2016:

“Don’t tell me it doesn’t work — torture works. Half these guys say ‘Torture doesn’t work.’ Believe me, it works.”

What is waterboarding?

Waterboarding is a form of physical interrogation where a restrained prisoner has a piece of cloth put over their mouth and then have water poured on the cloth. This is meant to create a feeling of drowning.

Watch Marco Rubio questioning the C.I.A. head on other ethical questions regarding war:

 

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