TRUMP ADVOCATED THE USE OF WATERBOARDING FOR INTERROGATION Donald Trump Said He Would “Absolutely” Bring Back Waterboarding As An Accepted Form Of Interrogation. “Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Sunday he would allow U.S. interrogators to waterboard suspected terrorists in the wake of the recent attacks in Paris. ‘I would bring it back, yes,’ Trump said on ABC’s ‘This Week.’ … ‘I would bring it back,’ Trump said. ‘I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’d do to us, what they’re doing to us, what they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head. That’s a whole different level, and I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation.’” [Politico, 11/22/15] Trump Said Waterboarding May Cause Detainees To “Give False Information Sometimes” But Is Still Justified. HANNITY: “According to him, would we have gotten Bin Laden without the waterboarding, he said absolutely we would not have. Explain why you think that is a necessary tool that we need to be using?” TRUMP: “Well, first of all, I think it works. I have no doubt that it works. Maybe not in all cases and maybe they'll give false information sometimes, but I have no doubt that it works. But the fact is that they're chopping off heads, they're drowning people in cages, they're keeping the cage under water for a half hour and then pulling it up with many people in there. They're doing acts that nobody has ever seen before or even heard of before and we're worried about waterboarding. How stupid can we be? And it does work, the waterboarding.” [Hannity, Fox News, 11/25/15] HEADLINE: “Donald Trump On Waterboarding: ‘If It Doesn’t Work, They Deserve It Anyway.’” [Washington Post, 11/23/15] Donald Trump Said “You Bet Your Ass” He Would Approve Waterboarding In A Heartbeat, And “If It Doesn’t Work, They Deserve It Anyway For What They’re Doing.” “‘Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would — in a heartbeat,’ Trump said to loud cheers during a rally at a convention center here Monday night that attracted thousands. ‘And I would approve more than that. Don't kid yourself, folks. It works, okay? It works. Only a stupid person would say it doesn't work.’ … ‘It works,’ Trump said over and over again. ‘Believe me, it works. And you know what? If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway, for what they're doing. It works.’” [Washington Post, 11/23/15] Donald Trump Said Osama Bin Laden Would Not Have Been Killed If U.S. Had Not Used Waterboarding, Despite A 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee Report’s Determinations To The Contrary. “Trump said bin Laden ultimately would not have been killed in 2011 if the United States did not use waterboarding, the controversial interrogation technique that the Obama administration considers torture and no longer uses. An exhaustive 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report deemed that harsh interrogation measures like waterboarding do not work and did not produce breakthrough intelligence in the hunt for bin Laden, assertions that the CIA and former officers vehemently dispute. Trump has said he would resume waterboarding and approve even more aggressive techniques.” [Washington Post, 11/24/15] SURVEILLANCE Confidential Page 133