But asked about the efficacy of tactics such as waterboarding, Trump said: “absolutely I feel it works.”ABC News (@ABC) President Trump on waterboarding: “I feel it works,” but will rely on team’s guidance and do everything “legally." As far as I’m concerned we have to fight fire with fire.”Trump said he asked intelligence chiefs earlier this week whether torture works. “There is, at best, anecdotal evidence to support torture,” said Kleinman, who emphasized that he was not speaking for the HIG. Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, has been urged to by her own MPs to make Britain’s opposition to torture clear to Trump when she visits him on Friday. At prime minister’s questions Andrew Tyrie, a senior Tory MP, said: “President Trump has repeatedly said he will bring back torture as an instrument of policy.

Source: The Guardian January 26, 2017 07:40 UTC