Appearing on Hardball just now, Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) defended the use of waterboarding — and unlike other GOPers, he openly used the word “torture.”
“I would not limit our intelligence agencies’ ability to get information from people,” said Schock. “If they have a ticking time-bomb or some critical piece of information that can save American lives, I don’t believe that we should limit waterboarding or quite frankly any other alternative torture technique, if it means saving Americans’ lives.”
Most Republicans, such as Dick and Liz Cheney, adamantly deny that waterboarding constitutes torture or that the United States ever authorized torture, and they also charge President Obama and other Democrats with slandering American troops by using the word “torture.” So it’s interesting to see at least one Republican who is not afraid to use the word “torture,” and who describes it as a positive thing that should be utilized.
Go to the 2:25 mark in the video:
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