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Hillary Nixes Waterboarding Terrorists, Claims It’s ‘Torture’ [VIDEO]

Steve Guest Media Reporter
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Hillary Clinton likened waterboarding to torture claiming that law enforcement and intelligence officials “don’t need to resort to torture” to get information from terrorists.

In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie Tuesday on “Today,” Clinton said with waterboarding “our country’s most experienced and bravest military leaders will tell you that torture is not effective.” (RELATED: Suicide Bombings At Brussels Airport And Metro)

Lauer asked Clinton about the use of “enhanced techniques to get information” out of people in the aftermath of the Brussels terrorist attacks, and the former secretary of state said, “I think it is certainly understandable that people would be asking those kinds of questions.” (RELATED: Trump Calls For ‘A Lot More Than Waterboarding’ To Get Info From Terrorists [VIDEO])

Clinton later claimed that waterboarding terrorists “puts our soldiers and increasingly our civilians at risk. But we have to give law enforcement and intelligence officials all the tools they need to do the job to keep America safe. And they don’t need to resort to torture, but they are going to need more help.” (RELATED: Mastermind Behind Paris Attacks Arrested In Brussels)

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