Senator John McCain has promised to go head-to-head with President-elect Donald Trump if he follows through on campaign promises to reinstate the use of waterboarding and other methods of torture as interrogation techniques. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which tries to remain neutral in politics has also raised serious concerns over some of Trump’s campaign promises and cabinet appointments. Anti Media reports: “If they started waterboarding, I swear to you, there are a bunch of us that would have them in court in a New York minute, and there’s no judge in America that wouldn’t say they’re in violation of the law,” the senator declared at the International Security Forum on Saturday. “I don’t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do. We will not waterboard. We will not torture people…it doesn’t work.” The Arizona senator’s statement came just one day after Trump announced plans to nominate Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) as CIA Director. Pompeo is a longtime defender of the CIA’s brutal methods of interrogation. “These men and women are not torturers, they are patriots,” Pompeo stated in response to the release of the 2014 Senate Torture report. That report revealed CIA torture methods used during [...]
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