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President Donald Trump has said his Secretary of Defense James Mattis will override any decision he makes on torture if he sees fit.

Two weeks ago, during his confirmation hearings, CIA Director Mike Pompeo was asked whether he’d comply if Donald Trump ordered him to implement a torture program.

“I don’t want people to chop off the citizens or anybody’s heads in the Middle East”.

In typical Trumpian fashion, the new president lashed out at the slightest bit of media criticism.

“This was your choice of a question?” he said, to laughter.

Dianne Feinstein that he couldn’t even imagine Trump asking him to resort to using such techniques in interrogating terror suspects.

And senior Tory Andrew Tyrie urged May to tell the President that “in no circumstances will she permit Britain to be dragged into facilitating torture, as we were after September 11”.

Trump called waterboarding “one step slightly below torture”, but said it’s now considered torture and he doesn’t agree.

Trump at a press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May said that Mattis would get the last word on torture.

“He’s an expert. He’s highly respected”.

“I happen to feel that it (waterboarding) does work”.

“I was thinking, if I had an opportunity to speak with David Muir, I’d say, ‘OK, two guys go into your house”. The draft, which the White House said was not official, also would reverse President Barack Obama’s effort to close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – a place Trump has said he wants to fill up “with bad dudes”. The U.S. ground commander for Iraq said earlier this week that he had received no notice of plans to change troop levels or rules of engagement since Trump took office.

Both the United States and the United Kingdom have been signatories of the Geneva Conventions banning torture for more than a half-century.

“Ministers have pointed to the UK’s policy against torture – but the reality is that this policy is riddled with loopholes and lacks any independent oversight”, she said.

Under the Geneva Conventions, torture is a war crime.