of U.S. service members who died in captivity through torture, and that torture does not produce credible intelligence. Nance was called to testify before the U.S. Congress about the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques". He told the House Judiciary Committee that: "Waterboarding is torture, period... I believe that we must reject the use of the waterboard for prisoners and captives and cleanse this stain from our national honor...water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel(ing) your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs." Nance's books on counter-terrorism and intelligence include: An End to al-Qaeda, Terrorist Recognition Handbook, The Terrorists of Iraq, Defeating ISIS, The Plot to Hack America, and Hacking ISIS. In 2018, he published The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West. In 2019, he published The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It. Nance has suggested that Donald Trump was surveilled by Russia as early as 1977. Nance elaborated, "First, you start off as a useful idiot, right? Next is unwitting assets... a person who doesn’t know that there was an intelligence operation around him. The next progression is a witting asset. I have never said the next step. I have never said Donald Trump was an agent of Russia." Personal life Nance was married to Maryse Beliveau-Nance; she passed away from ovarian cancer in 2019. Filmography Torturing Democracy, 2008 (panel commentator). Dirty Wars, 2013 (interviewee). Trump: The Kremlin Candidate?, 2017 (interviewee). Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump, 2020 (interviewee). Bibliography . They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency. St. Martin's Press. 2022. ISBN 9781250279002. References External links Malcolm Nance Archives, Small Wars Journal Malcolm Nance TV News Internet Archives, Wayback Machine 1961 births Living people Date of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American writers African-American United States Navy personnel Excelsior College alumni Military personnel from Philadelphia MSNBC people United States Navy sailors Writers from Philadelphia People associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine personnel African-American Catholics Foreign volunteers in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine