A US lawmaker, who had for years been working as a torture consultant at the notorious US military-administrated Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, has now become the Republican Party’s candidate for the upcoming Pennsylvania special election for a seat of the House of Representatives.
Rick Saccone is running in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district special election that is set to take place on March 13 for the seat left vacant by Republican Representative Tom Murphy, who resigned suddenly in October over allegations he ran an abusive workplace as well as revelations that he had pressured his fiancee to seek an abortion.
Saccone, however, doesn’t seem to be less scandal-haunted since he had been working as interrogator consultant at Abu Ghraib prison.
He has written extensively about the need for torture, and authored a book in which he made claims about useful intelligence gleaned from “waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation,…