Tortures

Bush torture comments worry human rights groups over possible resurgence

Jeb Bush has come under fire from human rights groups after declining to rule out the US resuming the use of torture if he became president.

“[Bush is] wrong, and he’s perpetuating a myth that torture works,” said Sarah Dougherty, a senior fellow at Physicians for Human Rights. “We have a very large, thoroughly exhaustive research report saying that torture did not work.”