There are some reports out today that Donald Trump — who said he wants to bring back waterboarding "and worse" — has changed his mind about this. Fred Kaplan says no, Trump hasn't changed his mind.
What Trump did was to acknowledge that a respected (by Trump and others) retired Marine Corps general said that torture is not a great way to extract information from enemy combatants. And that sure seems to be a consensus of military leaders who are actually charged with interrogation. But that doesn't seem to matter to a certain kind of person we have around today who just plain likes the idea of America torturing anyone who may qualify as "the enemy," whether it's going to get us useful information or not.