Romney Torture Memo Leaked [video]
_Featured_, Politics Saturday, September 29th, 2012
“…In one of his first acts, President Obama issued an executive order restricting interrogators to a list of nonabusive tactics approved in the Army Field Manual. Even as he embraced a hawkish approach to other counterterrorism issues — like drone strikes, military commissions, indefinite detention and the Patriot Act — Mr. Obama has stuck to that strict no-torture policy. By contrast, Mr. Romney’s advisers have privately urged him to “rescind and replace President Obama’s executive order” and permit secret “enhanced interrogation techniques against high-value detainees that are safe, legal and effective in generating intelligence to save American lives,” according to an internal Romney campaign memorandum…”.*
Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz discuss on The Young Turks.
* *Read more here from Charlie Savage / The New York Times: Election to Decide Future Interrogation Methods in Terrorism Cases
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