Many of Trump’s outbursts have been criticized for their deemed sincerity – and vulgarity – but it is particularly his defense of torture (despite his nation’s ratification of the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment) that could provoke problems between the UK and US. The constitution may ostensibly be amended, and a UN convention might be derogated from, but a US decision to legalize torture would very probably prohibit the greater part of the intelligence-sharing aspects of the UK and US’s special relationship – a relationship that already is substantively about the collaboration between GCHQ and the NSA (US National Security Agency).
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
