During an interview on Fox News to discuss the 2016 GOP primary, Pete Hegseth and current Newsmax host Carl Higbie were brought on to discuss the candidates' stances on waterboarding and torture.

An curved arrow pointing right. Sen. John McCain said waterboarding would never be reinstated as an interrogation technique, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks that torture works a ...

and advocated for waterboarding and torture. Jump to section... Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense Hegseth has defended Americans accused of war crimes, including the ...

Democrats have criticised Hegseth’s stance on waterboarding. But his statements about the interrogation procedure have been about specific scenarios, some of which predated the 2015 law that ...

Bush’s Justice Department, Steven Bradbury wrote a series of memos justifying waterboarding that former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called “permission slips for torture.” Now, Bradbury is ...

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President Donald Trump drew sharp criticism from both Democrats and Republicans after he left open the possibility that he would support enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.

In Water on the Moon, Frederick M. “Skip” Burkle, Jr., MD recounts his life from childhood up to 2024, when he was 83. Having been drafted during the ...

"Waterboarding" is a way of simulating drowning, by pouring liquid over a gagged person's mouth. Prosecutors also said the children had suffered broken limbs and "varying forms of scars".

This has to change." Waterboarding was used as an interrogation process by the CIA in the US, after the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. It was banned as an interrogation technique in ...