{"id":2580,"date":"2016-11-29T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2016-11-29T00:56:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T06:56:12","slug":"donald-trump-faces-obstacles-to-resuming-waterboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Faces Obstacles to Resuming Waterboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/22\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-visit.html\">interview with The New York Times<\/a> last Tuesday, his only comments on the issue since the election, Mr. Trump said he discussed the matter with James N. Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general who is under consideration for defense secretary. Like most American military leaders, he is opposed to the use of torture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018What do you think of waterboarding?\u2019 \u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cI was surprised. He said, \u2018I\u2019ve never found it to be useful.\u2019 He said, \u2018I\u2019ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I do better with that than I do with torture.\u2019 And I was very impressed by that answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-waterboarding-torture.html?_r=0\">Donald Trump Faces Obstacles to Resuming Waterboarding &#8211; The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with The New York Times last Tuesday, his only comments on the issue since the election, Mr. Trump said he discussed the matter with James N. Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general who is under consideration for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}