Ex CIA Director – If Trump Wants Waterboarding, He should “bring his own bucket”

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 18:  Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden listens to questioning during a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee January 18, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The topic of the hearing was the "Current Assessment of Threats to U.S. National Security."  (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

Please don’t put ideas in the man’s head. Trump has already proven that he has zero morals!

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden’s pithy line, which he first uttered in a Showtime documentary and repeated to NBC News, underscores a serious issue: The GOP front-runner has vowed to bring back torture if he becomes president, but current and former CIA officials say the agency feels so burned by what happened when its post 9/11 interrogation program was exposed that it would refuse any such orders.

“Multiple investigations, grand juries, presidential condemnations and congressional star chambers have a way of doing that to you,” Hayden, who was CIA director at the end of the George W. Bush administration, told NBC News.

He then offered an even stronger version of his Showtime quote. “Like the man said, if you want somebody waterboarded, bring your own damn bucket.”

Trump said Wednesday he is convinced that “torture works,” so he would bring back waterboarding and “much stronger” methods.

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Ezra Grant

I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!

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