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Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:09 PM Mar 2016

Trump backs waterboarding and 'a lot more' after Brussels attacks

Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:51pm EDT
WASHINGTON | BY JOHN WHITESIDES

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States should use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques when questioning terror suspects, and renewed his call for tougher U.S. border security after the attacks in Brussels.

The billionaire businessman said authorities "should be able to do whatever they have to do" to gain information in an effort to thwart future attacks.

"Waterboarding would be fine. If they can expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding," Trump said on NBC's "Today" program, adding he believed torture could produce useful leads. "You have to get the information from these people."

Waterboarding, the practice of pouring water over someone’s face to simulate drowning as an interrogation tactic, was banned by President Barack Obama days after he took office in 2009. Critics call it torture.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0WO11J

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Trump backs waterboarding and 'a lot more' after Brussels attacks (Original Post) rug Mar 2016 OP
to be fair... lame54 Mar 2016 #1
Yeah, but now he can used severed limbs for a campaign commercial. rug Mar 2016 #2
And if he runs out of Brussels footage... lame54 Mar 2016 #3
Though, with his track record... Else You Are Mad Mar 2016 #4

Else You Are Mad

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4. Though, with his track record...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:22 PM
Mar 2016

... He will probably use stock footage from some other attack that obviously isn't Brussels and label it as the Brussels attack.

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