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On the recordMay 3, 2011
I believe, as I have said many times--I have been a military lawyer for 30 years--waterboarding as a technique has been talked about among the legal community and the military for a very long time as something not appropriate.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham expresses his opposition to waterboarding as an interrogation technique.

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