Hillary Clinton Makes First Public Statements on Torture Report
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Alex Wong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night that she was “proud” to be part of an administration that “banned illegal renditions and brutal interrogation tactics” in reference to last week’s release of a Senate report on enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA following the 9/11 attacks.
Accepting an award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights in New York City, Clinton, a potential candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, said that American “values are what set us apart from our adversaries.”
Siding with President Obama, most Democrats and Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, Clinton stressed that “the United States should never condone or practice torture anywhere in the world” even if it takes Congressional legislation to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
Clinton also mentioned that “black lives matter” when speaking about the deaths of two African-Americans at the hands of cops in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City’s Staten Island.
She added that if Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would believe that it’s “possible to keep us safe from terrorism and reduce crime and violence without relying on torture abroad or unnecessary force or excessive incarceration at home.”
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