US President Donald Trump says he is considering reinstating the use of torture, including the banned interrogation technique of waterboarding against terrorist suspects.
During an interview with ABC News on Wednesday at the White House, Trump said he thinks torture “absolutely” works.
“I have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the highest level of intelligence, and I asked them the question ‘Does it work? Does torture work?’ And the answer was ‘Yes, absolutely,’” the new president said.
Trump said waterboarding is useful against Daesh (ISIL) terrorist who are “chopping off the heads of our people and other people.”
“When ISIL is doing things that nobody has ever heard of since medieval times, would I feel strongly about waterboarding? As far as I’m concerned, we have to fight fire with fire,” he said.
Waterboarding, which mimics the sensation of drowning, was first allowed during former US president George W….