Posted on 02/22/2016 8:56:39 AM PST by Citizen Zed
During the Feb. 6 Republican debate, Trump pledged that he would support waterboarding and would "bring back a hell of a lot worse." Last November, Trump told an audience in Columbus, Ohio, that waterboarding works. "Believe me, it works. And you know what? If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway, for what they're doing. It works."
Hayden disputed that notion Monday, saying, "We never did anything to anyone because they deserved it."
"This was never looking backward. This was trying to keep Americans safe looking forward. People can argue about what we did, but it was never, never a form of punishment," he said.
Asked whether Cruz's frequent calls to "carpet-bomb ISIS into oblivion" would be feasible, Hayden was firm.
"No, and it would be immoral"
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Cruz clearly said in the debate that waterboarding is enhanced interrogation, not torture. He said maybe torture could be used at highest level in some imminent danger. He also said he would listen to the military on the fight with ISIS and not nation build.
Just heard Dobson’s Cruz commercial on radio Rush station.
Dresden.
The Chertoff Group.
Hayden.
Oh -and owned in part by Cruz’s campaign chairman Chad Sweet.
Time for all the candy asses to take a hike. If a terrorist is captured and has info involving killing Americans, then all options should be off the table. WHATEVER it takes to get the information......do it.
Hillary Clinton’s mushrooming email scandal will not end well no matter what conclusions are reached, Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and NSA, tells Newsmax TV.
“I would simply say that the sin in all of this is the original sin,” Hayden said Wednesday to J.D. Hayworth, host of “Newsmax Prime.”
Breaking News at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/michael-hayden-hillary-clinton-email-scandal/2015/08/19/id/670918/#ixzz40vOrA1cM
Let’s clarify one thing: It’s a total urban myth that torture doesn’t work; it works quite well. Ask anyone who was in the Hanoi Hilton. COL Leroy Stutz, a POW in Vietnam for over six years, was the commandant of my SERE class. He told us - and I paraphrase - “..you’ll break, we all did.”
So what did he say about Hillary and selling national security secrets?
I don’t understand the point of your question. What difference, at this point, does it make? She should be serving a life sentence for the email server setup alone.
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