WASHINGTON, May 14 — Two members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee wrote to President Donald Trump’s nominee for the top US intelligence job yesterday seeking clarification of his views on the use of torture by US spy agencies. In a letter to Representative John Ratcliffe, Trump's nominee...
Thursday, 14 May 2020 02:40 PM MYT
WASHINGTON, May 14 — Two members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee wrote to President Donald Trump’s nominee for the top US intelligence job yesterday seeking clarification of his views on the use of torture by US spy agencies. “In both your written and your oral responses to Committee questions about torture, you have been evasive and non-committal,” the letter said.
And when King asked Ratcliffe if he believed waterboarding violated anti-torture law, Ratcliff said only that the law said “torture is illegal,” an answer the senators criticised as not being direct.
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