Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States should use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques when questioning terror suspects, and renewed his call for tougher U.S. border security after the attacks in Brussels.
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“If I say do it, they’re going to do it. That’s what leadership is all about”, he said at the debate referring to military and intelligence officials even if it breaks US and worldwide law.
Trump said Abdeslam should be tortured to get information out of him.
“We need to do everything that makes good common sense, that’s in the best interests of national security, but obviously it needs to be done in a way that’s consistent with the Constitution”, said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
He said that not only the US, but the world has to take this latest threat “seriously”.
“Speaking on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer, Trump, reiterated his call for a ban on Muslims entering the country, saying there’s “no choice” after a terror attack Tuesday in Brussels that left dozens dead”.
“I would close up our borders”, Trump told Fox News in an interview.
According to the 2010 religious census, Texas has more Muslims than any other US state, and Houston leads the way in the Lone Star State – about 1.2 percent of the city’s population is Muslim, with about 80 mosques and more than 10 Muslim schools throughout the area. “We need a president who unleashes the full force and fury on ISIS and utterly destroys them – that’s the only way to keep us safe”. “Somehow that community doesn’t believe in reporting”.
“If it was up to me and if we changed the laws or have the laws, waterboarding would be fine and if they want to, as long as its, you know we work within the laws”.
Trump, who will compete in the Republican presidential primary in Arizona and caucus in Utah on Tuesday evening, said hawkish rhetoric at a time of high-profile terrorism appears to have helped his poll numbers.
Hillary Clinton told “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday that the attack is a “continuing reminder of how sophisticated the terrorists are”. “Today’s attacks will only strengthen our resolve to stand together as allies and defeat terrorism and radical jihadism around the world”. “Why are we always the one that’s leading, potentially the third world war with Russian Federation'”.
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As the attack in San Bernardino – and 9/11 before it – demonstrated, America isn’t immune to terrorist attacks. We’re not going to allow it to happen to our country. Kirby’s comments came after Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who hours after the attack told Fox Business Network that the US “frankly” had “problems with the Muslims”. He added, “This type of barbarism can not be allowed to continue”. “We’re taking in people without real documentation, we don’t know where they’re coming from, we don’t know what they’re – where they’re from, who they are”. Blitzer also pointed out that torture violates worldwide agreements that the United States has signed.
