HANNITY: Hey Bill, I just disagree with your assessment. The president doesn't support torture. He's never said he supports torture. He's said just the opposite.
MAHER: Oh...
HANNITY: Wait a minute. What he said is he supports strong, aggressive interrogation techniques. That would be sleep deprivation, loud music, to extract information from enemy combatants on a battlefield when they may have information that will kill Americans or kill American soldiers. Why wouldn't you support that?
MAHER: OK. There are thousands of people in detention centers that we have. Thousands of them in Iraq and Guantanamo, Bagram Bay, black sites we don't even know about in lots of countries. And just because he uses a euphemism doesn't mean it's not torture.
How about this? If this is not really torture, if this is something that you're OK with our enemy doing to our troops if they were captured, why don't you undergo it for a week? Water-boarding, where they put you underwater until you nearly drown?
HANNITY: Nobody supports waterboarding. The president specifically addressed that. That's not what they're talking about. But loud music, sleep deprivation, aggressive interrogation, you should support that, especially knowing that American lives would be at stake.
Today, Hannity has a much different view. From his interview of Charles Grodin on April 22nd:
GRODIN: Let's say they capture him. They can't because he won’t join. But what does that mean, enhanced interrogation?
HANNITY: It means waterboarding.
HANNITY: ...Don't you — you don't want to live through 9/11 again. Is it really so bad to dunk a terrorist's head in water and make him talk? Tell me what's wrong with that.
Just before the 3:00 mark on this clip, you can hear Hannity say "I don't believe waterboarding is torture." Grodin was also talking at the same time, so it appears in the FAUX News transcript as "(CROSSTALK)".
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