Somebody took Trump into a room and gave him the word
by digby
I wonder if they waterboarded him?
According to the Wall Street Journal:
He has been saying that he’d waterboard “and much, much worse” since the beginning of his campaign. He’s promised to torture and “take out” the families of terrorist suspects in order to make them talk. This is not new although everyone’s acting as if it’s first they’ve heard of it.
What seems to have alarmed people is the idea that he would expect the military to follow his order to do such a thing. Well, why wouldn’t he? It’s not as if anyone’s paid a price for all the torture that came before. Of course he figured the military would do it.
But he made a mistake. It’s the CIA that does this sort of wet work, not the military. They like to keep their hands clean these days. So now I’d guess he’s promised someone (I wonder who) that he’ll mouth some platitudes about keeping within the law while winking and nodding like everyone else. Donald Trump. Just another politician.
The military wouldn’t save us from President Trump’s illegal orders https://t.co/sUIPMQhkfa— Rosa Brooks (@brooks_rosa) March 4, 2016
On torture: now that all candidates say they’ll follow the law, next Q is if they know what law says https://t.co/S9iWdmw9zB— KatherineHawkins (@Krhawkins5) March 4, 2016
Maybe it’s time for someone in the entire executive branch to crack open the Senate torture report?— KatherineHawkins (@Krhawkins5) March 4, 2016
Remember that the White House has not read the whole torture report. If they do it will be subject to public scrutiny. So they just haven’t opened the file.
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