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If they do forbid waterboarding, they could broadcast McCain speeches 24/7…..prisoners would beg for waterboarding…..rsk

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pushed back on President-elect Donald Trump’s past praise for waterboarding Saturday, maintaining that the U.S. wouldn’t use it as an interrogation tactic.
“I don’t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do … we will not waterboard,” McCain said at the Halifax International Security Forum, according to reporters.

“I don’t give a damn what the President of the United States wants to do… We will not waterboard.” – @SenJohnMcCain #HISF2016
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) November 19, 2016

McCain: “I don’t give a damn what the [POTUS] wants to do, we will not waterboard… we will not torture people… It doesn’t work.” #HISF2016
— Michael Crowley (@michaelcrowley) November 19, 2016

“If they started waterboarding, I swear to you that we’d have them in court in a New York minute,” McCain added, according to TalkingPointsMemo.

McCain, who was held prisoner for more than five years during the Vietnam War, has long been a vocal opponent of waterboarding.

Trump expressed support during the campaign for authorizing any means necessary for interrogating terror suspects, including the use of waterboarding, saying in March that “waterboarding would be fine.”

McCain criticized Trump for his rhetoric on torture during the campaign. In June, McCain said there was no place for waterboarding in this country, noting it is considered a war crime and is ineffective.

“It’s not the United States of America. It’s not what we are all about. It’s not what we are,” McCain said then.

The last lynching in the United States began when Michael Donald, a 19-year-old African-American man, was kidnapped by two Klansmen. They forced him into the car at gunpoint, beat him, tied a rope around his neck, cut his throat three times and left him hanging from a tree on Herndon Street in Mobile, Alabama.

The search for justice ended two years later when U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions announced that the killers had been arrested. Local authorities had botched the case badly. But Sessions was determined to see that justice would be done. Federal and State resources were combined for a successful outcome.

The case brought an end to lynching culture and broke the KKK. But the man whose office investigated the case, who helped send one of the killers to the electric chair, would be smeared as a racist despite his history of fighting for civil rights and against racist abuses in dozens of court cases.

And it was those radical activists smearing him as a racist who had been exploiting black people.

The man named by President-elect Trump as his nominee for Attorney General of the United States had always played fair. Unlike so many on the left, he didn’t come wielding a racial double standard.

And that made him enemies.

When black voters complained about voter fraud being perpetrated, Sessions stepped in. The voter fraud was being committed by black activists. Among them was an influential figure whose past made him a hero to some. Ballots had been altered after voting. The defendants were caught mailing hundreds of absentee ballots by FBI agents. Others had been searching hospitals and nursing homes for the names of patients whose names could be forged on absentee ballots.

The abuses were truly despicable. In one case an African-American resident complained that her blind husband’s ballot had been altered and when she complained, she was warned to change her testimony.

The last best defense for voter fraud by the exploiters and abusers of black people was to cry racism.

The White House was racist. The FBI was racist. Sessions was racist. But the despicable lie was quickly shot down by the African-American public officials who had fallen victim to the fraud.

African-American Perry County Commissioner Reese Billingslea said, “It’s not a black-white issue — race has nothing to do with it.”

Federal bureaucrats have been in a frenzy of activity in Obama’s last months of office, pushing through 4,000 new regulations that will cost consumers more than $100 million. As liberal website Politico proudly reported, “Obama’s executive agencies are intent on pushing through the president’s priorities without congressional interference[.]”

Trump has promised to rein in our overreaching bureaucracy through attrition. His rival in the primaries, Jeb Bush, suggested three bureaucrats retire for each new hire. That might save some money, but it will not get the job done of ending corruption and bureaucratic tyranny.

We have elected a man famous for two words: “You’re fired!” For Trump to legalize that simple act, as necessary in the government as in business, will be nothing less than a revolution.

We have a VA that purposely lets vets die without medical care.

We have an EPA at war with the energy industry.

The Department of Education threatens public schools with loss of federal funds and mandates progressive lies about American history, teaching generations of schoolchildren to be ashamed of America and ignorant of our Constitution and our forefathers. Universities are forced by the DOJ to hire feminist and racialist thought police under an Obama bureaucrat’s interpretation of the Civil Rights Act.

We have an IRS that has a political enemies list its employees punish at the behest of Democrats.

Homeland Security and FBI are under a gag order that forbids them to use the term jihad or Islamic extremism.

Everywhere we look, regulations are strangling business, intruding into the personal lives and property rights of ordinary citizens. The cost to families is crushing. One among the hundreds of Obama’s new global warming regs: fuel-efficient furnaces will raise the price of furnaces almost $500.