In our fight against terrorism, we should never forget our moral values and constitutional principles. With a president who has claimed that torture works and, furthermore, supported the use of other interrogation techniques worse than waterboarding, we need leaders in our intelligence agencies who can resist the pressures of a president who has very little in common with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and those founding fathers who valued human rights.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 13, 2018 11:01 UTC