On 'Fox & friends,' Trump hammered John Brennan for saying the CIA would by no means again waterboard suspected terrorists
Outraged at 'ISIS humans sitting round, consuming, and talking approximately how this us of a may not allow waterboarding – and that they just chopped off 50 heads'
Brennan advised NBC news: 'i would now not conform to having any CIA officer sporting out waterboarding again'
Trump boasted at some point of a March four debate: 'they're now not going to refuse me ... If I say, "Do it," they're going to do it'
Donald Trump escalated his struggle of words with CIA director John Brennan on Monday, castigating the spymaster for announcing he would never convey returned waterboarding – even under a future president's orders.
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Trump framed Brennan as a vulnerable relic and a recipe for defeat.
'we're gambling on exclusive fields, and we've got a huge trouble with ISIS, which we cannot beat,' the Republican presidential front-runner stated.
'And the motive we can not beat them is because we can not use strong approaches, whether it is this or different element.'
'So I assume his remarks are ridiculous,' he persevered.
'are you able to consider those ISIS people sitting round, eating, and talking about how this country might not allow waterboarding – and that they just chopped off 50 heads?'
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's principal GOP White house rival, has additionally signaled a choice to stop President Barack Obama's ban on waterboarding, announcing it falls quick of 'torture.'
Trump has pledged to go back 'a hell of plenty worse' than waterboarding to the toolboxes of america's navy and intelligence forces.
For the duration of a March 4 debate, Trump almost dared navy commanders to threat their careers via standing as much as him inside the face of a waterboarding order.
'They might not refuse. They're not going to refuse me,' he informed Fox news Channel anchor Bret Baier in one televised alternate that
Ross, Brian, and Richard Esposito. "CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described." ABC News. ABC News Network, 08 Nov. 2005. Web. 08 Mar. 2014. .
What do you consider to be cruel and unusual punishment? Most people when asked this question think of medieval torture devices, burning people alive, and hard slave labor. However, cruel and unusual punishment, which is a protected against right by the eighth amendment, stretches far beyond these cliches and is still occurring in modern society. The case Miller v. Alabama and a parallel case, Jackson v. Hobbs deals with such punishments and brings up the questions of what, in current times, is to be considered cruel and unusual punishment. Miller v. Alabama addresses with the debate that arose surrounding the mandatory sentence of life without parole for a juvenile when two boys, fourteen-year-old Evan Miller and sixteen-year-old Colby Smith,
...rd two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002. In return, all other charges would be dropped. The gag order was suggested to have been a request from the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (Orstein, 2004).
Glen Greenwald stated that “people are thinking differently about the extent to which they are willing to trust the United States Government to operate under this extreme cloak of secrecy behind which they have operated, for a long time but certainly since 9/11 when it intensified greatly. I agree that a presidential pardon would help “resolve a glaring contradiction in how the White House has dealt with the alleged crimes by national security
When the movie was released there was a lot of criticism for this part stating that “Some critics have argued that it “glorifies torture" or even constitutes "torture porn". Director Kathryn Bigelow has replied that "depiction is not endorsement".” (Tunzelmann, Alex) These facts were drawn from a critic’s data and are pretty accurate from my point of view. The practices shown in the beginning stages of the movie with what the CIA has admitted about their enhanced interrogation techniques, or EIT, are profoundly disturbing in many ways. Historically, the torture sense are accurate as the CIA did in fact use the techniques such as waterboarding, forcing suspects into crammed spaces, and sleep
MediaMatters for america. (2010). On CNN, West asserted waterboarding is "not torture," claimed, "[Y]ou wake up feeling fine the next da (). In. (Ed.). , WA: Washington Times. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://mediamatters.org/research/200711020009
Nedzi (D-Mich.), Luclen N. “Oversight or Overlook: Congress and the US Intelligence Agency.” A Congressman talk to the CIA senior seminar, November 14, 1979, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol18no2/pdf/v18i2a02p.pdf (accessed January 7, 2014).
The Student Life recently published an article, “On the Distortion of Islam and the Muslim World,” in which the author, Taylor Schmitt, rejects the use of the name ISIS since this “gang of fools is neither Islamic nor a state.” Not only does the author state that Islam is not to blame for the cruelties committed in its name, but he goes on to say that ISIS is not an Islamic group at all, a statement which is totally false.
The National Security Act of 1947 created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). President Truman’s vision of the CIA was a peacetime intelligence agency that provided early warnings in the event of an attack. After President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, a loophole was found. The National Security Act “instructed the CIA to correlate, evaluate, and disseminate intelligence and to perform ‘other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security’ ” (Weiner 2007). The CIA used this wording of ‘other functions’ to conduct secret operations overseas and to practice cloak and dagger methods in obtaining intelligence. Since its establishment over sixty years ago, the CIA’s implementation of cloak and dagger intelligence gathering has evolved to developing a componen...
and ordered to start thinking before he speaks, following a number of cringe worthy moment on
There is an emotional tyranny at play here, and its effect is to obstruct processes of understanding that alone will aid us in our ongoing debate over how to come to terms with terrorism. What do I mean by tyranny? In the first instance, we are being told that feelings alone are appropriate now. It is too early, indeed, it is tasteless, to begin to sort through our role in the complex factors that brought these people to their heinous acts.
In May 2014, Snowden gave an uncovering meeting with NBC News. He told Brian Williams that
A new wave of terrorists, named Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, have grown to be well over the size of Al-Qaeda. In an article, 60 Terrorist Plots Since 9/11: Continued Lessons in Domestic Counterterrorism, ISIS is reported to be increasingly popular in social media, which leads to the influence of extremism in the United States. The article states, “Most disturbingly, an increasing number of Islamist-inspired terrorist attacks are originating within America’s borders. The rise of homegrown extremism is the next front in the fight against terrorism and should be taken seriously by the Administration”. This significance is crucial to understanding the mass spread of terrorism, and understanding that the United States has roots of terrorism sprouting from the soil. For example, the Boston Marathon bombing was conducted by two United States citizens in an attempt to accomplish mass casualty (Zuckerman, Bucci, and Carafano). According to an article by a CNN author, the security officials in Boston at that time were able to respond quickly in correspondence with local authority to apprehend the suspects. Shortly after the detonation of both bombs, the men had fled the scene knowing that authorities were hot on their heels. Within hours, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had released images of the two men to the public (Botelho). Already, the response by authorities in the Boston Marathon bombing was proving to be better organized compared to the response of authorities during the 9/11 attacks. Effective communication, fast response, and unrivaled determination gave police the upper hand. Botelho wrote, “Tamerlan Tsarnaev dies after the gunfight, while his brother eludes authorities...When the suspect is found, he has visible injuries including apparent gunshot wounds to his head, neck, and legs” (Botelho). Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in the custody of authorities
Failing to win many of the Southern states he banked on previously that went overwhelming in favor of Trump, in part due to Senator Jeff Sessions endorsement, Cruz focused his speech with attacks on the front-runner. "America shouldn't have a president who words would make you embarrassed if you children repeated them," Cruz said. "Our president should make us all proud and who should inspire hope in all of us."
“Fight fire with fire” said Donald Trump. This is his view on what we should do with torture. (CNN) He thinks we should use waterboarding, because they are chopping off people's heads and drowning people in heavy metal cages. (PROCON)