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Jeff Sessions: “Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding or any other form of…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding or any other form of torture in the United States by our military and by all our other departments and agencies.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions affirms that Congress has banned torture, including waterboarding, by U.S. military and agencies.

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