I believe in torture – but my Pentagon boss doesn’t: Trump says Mad Dog Mattis will not order waterboarding and insists he’ll let ‘general’s general’ override him
President Donald Trump said Friday that although he believes torture works, Defense Secretary James Mattis disagrees
And he declared that he will defer to ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, pledging not to overrule his decisions on waterboarding and other ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques
Comments came in joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May, the first of its kind for the new president
Trump said just Wednesday that he’s not convinced torturing terror suspects is counterproductive, and the U.S. is ‘not playing on an even field’
Trump told ABC News that high-ranking intelligence officers told him torture ‘absolutely’ works, and the U.S. must ‘fight fire with fire’
By David Martosko, US Political Editor
DailyMail.com
27 January 2017
President Donald Trump pledged on Friday that he won’t countermand his secretary of defense’s aversion to ordering the torture of high-value terrorism suspects –including warriors in the ISIS terror army.
On the contrary, Trump said he will let the general ‘override’ his judgment because he’s the expert.
Trump is commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces, giving him the authority to override his generals’ recommendations, not the reverse.
General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, the new Pentagon chief, opposes torture. Trump believes it can be productive in some circumstances.
Mattis, he said during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May, is a ‘general’s general’ and ‘we’re going to win with or without’ torture.
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