Actually, Waterboarding Can Be Okay: Trump’s First DC Circuit Nominee
President Trump’s first nominee to serve on the second most powerful federal court refused to unequivocally describe waterboarding as “torture.” Gregory Katsas–picked to fill a vacancy on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals–told Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday that the coercive technique was “likely torture, in many circumstances.” “I hesitate to answer the question in the abstract not knowing the circumstances or the nature of the program,” Katsas told Durbin at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He noted that waterboarding “has…