This report was broadcast on May 11.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that the U.S. should
restart torture interrogation tactics. Cheney’s comment comes a day
after President Trump’s nominee to head the CIA, Gina Haspel, repeatedly
refused Wednesday to call the CIA’s post-9/11 treatment of prisoners
“torture,” and declined to state whether she believes torture is
immoral. Haspel’s prospects for confirmation remain in doubt, after
Republican senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and John McCain of Arizona
issued statements opposing her nomination. Democracy Now! discussed the issue with Laleh Khalili,
professor at SOAS University of London and author of “Time in the
Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies.”
Source: Democracy Now!
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