Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again — Even if Ordered by Future President
CIA Director John Brennan told NBC News in an exclusive interview
that his agency will not engage in harsh "enhanced interrogation"
practices, including waterboarding, which critics call torture — even if
ordered to by a future president.
"I will not agree to carry out some of these
tactics and techniques I've heard bandied about because this institution
needs to endure," Brennan said.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said that if
elected president, he'd authorize the use of waterboarding which was
banned in 2009. Trump said the technique, considered torture under
international law, and other methods he characterized as "a hell of a lot worse" would be used to extract information from potential terrorists.
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