Grrr!
He’s right, but it’s not that big of a deal.
The military, the CIA, and any part of the government, and anyone we hire or deal with, are now restricted from using any techniques not in the U.S. Army interrogation manual.
This is because the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 that Congress passed last fall now makes that illegal. It doesn’t matter whether or not the CIA’s method of waterboarding is torture. It’s not in the manual, and now it’s illegal.
But I said it doesn’t matter. The next Congress can pass another law to make it possible. They’ll do it when they think it’s in their interest.
Democrats lied when they said they opposed waterboarding, and they can flip the other way. It just takes the right circumstances, and the right kinds of excuses.
Once that happens, someone in the CIA and military will do it. It’ll take a President who has their back.