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Lindsey Graham: “If I may, let me ask another question. All of us agree we don't want to torture anybody. Waterboarding is not the way to…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2011
If I may, let me ask another question. All of us agree we don't want to torture anybody. Waterboarding is not the way to get good intelligence. Not only is it not the right thing to do, it is just not the wise thing to do. But we believe we have gone too far the other way; that when the President said no interrogation technique is available to our intelligence community other than the Army Field Manual, does my colleague agree that, for the first time in American history, we are advertising to our enemies what we can do to them if we capture them, and no more can be done?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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Nov 30, 2011

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