Torture works but waterboarding is not tough enough: Trump
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has come out in defense of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, saying, “Torture works.”
"Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works, OK folks?" said the billionaire reality TV star among his supporters in South Carolina on Wednesday.
As he had before, Trump defended waterboarding, saying he would "absolutely" back it and is ready to do even more.
"But we should go much stronger than waterboarding," he said. "That's the way I feel. They're chopping off heads. Believe me, we should go much stronger because our country's in trouble, we're in danger. We have people that want to do really bad things… Waterboarding is fine, but it's not nearly tough enough."
Trump’s remarks are part of attempts to collect the delegates needed to secure the GOP's nomination although he has threatened to run as an independent if he is not picked.
Last December, a bipartisan report by US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) provided details of torture on detainees between 2001 and 2006 during the so-called war on terror.
The heavily redacted 525-page report included instances of rectal feeding, freezing inmates to death, use of insects, sleep deprivation, and prolonged standing among other methods.
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