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Giuliani: I Used ‘Very Aggressive,’ ‘Intensive’ Interrogation Techniques Think
Progress Asked about his views of waterboarding this weekend, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said that as President he would support the use of “enhanced” interrogation techniques. In an interview with Bloomberg’s Al Hunt, Giuliani claimed such techniques are effective and that he used “intensive questioning” as a federal prosecutor in New York to elicit information from the mafia:
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While claiming “we should not torture,” Giuliani has been ambiguous in describing the exact interrogation tactics he approved, but he maintains they were “very aggressive”:
Giuliani’s vague statements raise questions as to what kind of “techniques” he endorsed as a federal prosecutor, and specifically, how he parses “the line between” torture and intensive questioning. Recently, Giuliani joked about the use of sleep deprivation and said he was “not sure” whether waterboarding constituted torture.
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