2016 GOP presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina may be at each others throats, and disagree on some issues, but one thing is for sure, both of these candidates are in favor of advanced interrogation techniques when battling radical Islamic terrorists.
In an interview with the Shark Tank this past summer, frontrunner Donald Trump said he was in favor of using all means necessary to extract information out of terrorists, and that he supported keeping the prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base open.I would keep it, and I would not close it. I would use it, and I would use it well.-Donald Trump
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Now Fiorina was also gone on record with Yahoo News to defend the CIA interrogation tactics, as well as to defend water boarding, saying that it an effective technique that helped “to keep our nation safe” after the attacks on September 11, 2011.
Fiorina continued:“I believe that all of the evidence is very clear — that waterboarding was used in a very small handful of cases [and] was supervised by medical personnel in every one of those cases,” Fiorina said. “And I also believe that waterboarding was used when there was no other way to get information that was necessary.”
“It’s outrageous for anybody to claim that torture was limited or that this is the way the U.S. should have conducted business after 9/11,” Naureen Shah, director of the security and human rights program at Amnesty International USA, told Yahoo News in response to Fiorina’s comments. “This is completely rewriting the history of what happened.”
“Intelligence agencies that engage in covert activity need to be very creative about how they can be transparent while not jeopardizing our personnel and sources and methods,” Fiorina said.
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