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As the General in charge of the Guantanamo Bay Detention facility, Kelly publicly criticized efforts to close Guantanamo (Source) and was accused by Obama Administration officials of working to undermine the Presidents efforts to close the facility. (Source)
Opposed and publicly criticized the integration of women into military ground combat units, arguing it would lead to lower standards. (Source)
Defended the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding and rectal feeding. Kelly went on to dismiss the criticisms of human rights groups as foolishness. (Source)
Testified in support of an officer caught urinating on talibani corpses. (Source)
Supports the imprisonment of terror suspects without trial. (Source)
Criticised by Amnesty International for his unsafe and inhumane treatment (Source) of Guantanamo detainees on hunger strike to protest their imprisonment. (Source)
Supports the war on drugs and opposes legalization or decriminalization of any drugs, including marijuana. (Source)
A proponent of border security, Kelly believes that no wall will work by itself and has warned about the existential threat that unchecked migration poses for the nation. (Source)
https://www.aclu.org/other/john-kelly-facts
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)That part in the article made me sick!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Rectal feeding and hydrating, waterboarding, rape and sodomy. It's all torture, and he oversaw it. You do realize that "in favor of" means it was happening. Who knows what else these perverted people got up to?
Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)He is not a guardian of democracy as some thought. He won't protect the USA from Trump. He is one of them.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)the WH. Two peas in a pod.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)running off at the mouth about this or that has bad consequences?
I think everybody knows what I mean.
Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)Please explain. Trump won by 70,000 electoral votes. There were a lot of forces against us.
Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)was fishing when I heard Bannon approved, and Steve Miller is still there.