Rob O'Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, has attributed waterboarding to leading special forces straight to his home

The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden has attributed waterboarding to leading special forces straight to his home.

'Waterboarding delivered special operators to bin Laden's house so they could serve justice. Under the authority of a democrat president,' Rob O'Neill wrote in a tweet on Wednesday.

His tweet came during a debate about President Donald Trump's nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, and whether or not torture works, including waterboarding.

Haspel said on Wednesday that she does not believe torture works and would not carry out any presidential order she thought was immoral.

Facing tough questioning by members of the Senate intelligence committee, Haspel insisted her 'moral compass is strong'.

If confirmed, she said she would not permit the CIA to restart the kind of harsh detention and interrogation program the spy agency ran at black sites after 9/11 and tainted American's image worldwide.

Trump has said he supports subjecting terror suspects to harsh interrogation tactics like waterboarding, which simulates drowning, and a 'hell of a lot worse'.

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O'Neill made the remark on Twitter on Wednesday. His tweet came during a debate about President Donald Trump's nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, and whether or not torture works, including waterboarding

Haspel (left) said on Wednesday that she does not believe torture works and would not carry out any presidential order she thought was immoral. However, Trump (right) has said he supports subjecting terror suspects to harsh interrogation tactics like waterboarding

Her nomination has become contentious because she was chief of base of a covert detention site in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded.

'The terrorists aren’t into the waterboard. They are more power rill and open flame types... dull knives,' O'Neill also said as he voiced his opinion on Twitter.

O'Neill was part of SEAL Team Six, which stormed Osama bin Laden's secret Pakistan compound on May 2011. He fired the fatal shots that killed the Al Qaeda leader.

He also took part in the headline-making mission to rescue the crew of the Mearsk Alabama, after they were taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009. The incident was profiled in the Tom Hanks film Captain Phillips.

The 16-year veteran of the elite squadron left the military in 2012, four years shy of retirement, voiding his right to a pension.

He was deployed on more than a dozen tours of duty in active combat, in four different war zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

O'Neill (right) was part of the SEAL team that raided Bin Laden's (left) Pakistan compound in 2012. O'Neill fired the fatal shots because he was one of the first into the room

O'Neill was deployed on more than a dozen tours of duty in active combat, in four different war zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan

O'Neill was decorated 52 times for his service, leaving as senior chief petty officer.

He identified himself as the SEAL who killed Bin Laden in an interview with Fox News two years after he left the military and now works for the network as a contributor.

O'Neill told DailyMailTV of his decision to come forward: 'The people who wanted to find out [who killed bin Laden] knew by the time we set foot back in the US I had heard my name in DC, Virginia Beach and San Diego.

'I could've pretended my name wasn't out there but that would have been complacent because it was.'

A poignant meeting with family members of 9/11 victims also inspired him to come forward.

'I had donated my uniform anonymously to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum,' he said.

Fun-loving O'Neill, who was decorated 52 times for his service, posted a photo of himself with a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle's bourbon

Last summer, O'Neill, 41, married 27-year-old Jessica Halpin in a lavish wedding on Cape Cod

'I met around 35 family members of 9/11 victims and I told them the story for the first time.

'After the reaction I got from them, I figured if I could help them, I could help thousands more.'

In the months that followed his revelation, O'Neill took on a public role as a motivational speaker and established a charity, Your Grateful Nation, to help fellow veterans transition from a military background to a civilian career.

His now-wife Jessica Halpin said that when they first met, she was unaware of Rob's newly-acquired fame as the man who killed bin Laden.

'I remember a one-page description about him,' she said. 'It didn't say anything about the [Bin Laden] raid.'

O'Neill, who now works for Fox News, was a supporter of Trump during the presidential campaign

O'Neill (left), the former Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, had dinner at the White House in October, along with his new wife Jessica (right)

Last summer, O'Neill, 41, married 27-year-old Halpin in a lavish wedding on Cape Cod attended by the likes of Kid Rock, a close friend of the former SEAL.

He was married once previously, and had kids, but divorced after returning to civilian life.

Last year, O'Neill released a memoir, The Operator, which recounts his illustrious career and the 400 missions he completed.

A conservative, O'Neill was a supporter of Trump during the presidential race - but he has also spoken highly of former President Barack Obama, a Democrat.

'He made the right call with Captain Phillips and he made the right call with Bin Laden,' O'Neill said of Obama in a 2015 interview with The Sunday Times.

'The two times I've been directly associated with a decision that he made, he made the right call'.

He was even invited for dinner at the White House in October.

Rob O'Neill posted a picture on social media after the meal, showing him on the White House South Lawn at night with Jessica.