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Excerpt: "President Trump has displayed enthusiasm for brutality over the past year."

This March 30, 2010 file photo shows US military guards as they move a detainee inside Camp VI at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (photo: Paul J/ Richards/Getty)
This March 30, 2010 file photo shows US military guards as they move a detainee inside Camp VI at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (photo: Paul J/ Richards/Getty)


Having a Torturer Lead the CIA

By NY Times Editorial Board

15 March 18

 

resident Trump has displayed enthusiasm for brutality over the past year. He has told the police to treat suspects roughly, praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for murdering people suspected of drug ties and called for the execution of drug dealers.

But one of his most unsettling beliefs is still his acceptance of the value of torture. “In my opinion, it works,” he told Sean Hannity of Fox News early last year.

Previously, anyone alarmed by Mr. Trump’s cavalier embrace of government-sanctioned cruelty was reassured by his vow to accept the advice of his defense secretary, Jim Mattis, who opposes torture and promised at his Senate confirmation hearing that he would uphold American and international laws against it.


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