The director of the CIA says his spy agency will not engage in waterboarding or other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques even if ordered to by a future president.
CIA chief John Brennan tells NBC News that he will not agree to carry out such techniques because “this institution needs to endure.”
President Barack Obama banned waterboarding shortly after taking office in 2009.
Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have suggested they would not continue Obama’s ban. Trump has gone as far as to say that he would bring back waterboarding and “worse” tactics to get information.
The CIA used such interrogation techniques after the Sept. 11 attacks. Brennan told NBC News in an interview released Sunday that he would not agree to CIA officers carrying out waterboarding again.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Then Your FIRED!!!!!
Amen to that. If he can’t follow the bosses orders, then he should be vacated from the premises! Doesn’t he understand yet that POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS GETTING PEOPLE KILLED & PUTTING US ALL AT RISK?!
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have suggested they would not continue Obama’s ban. Trump has gone as far as to say that he would bring back waterboarding and “worse” tactics to get information.
I would use all of these techniques to get Obama to rat-out his handlers. And maybe after the treasonous cockroach spills his guts, another round of ‘questioning’ would be “proved to be a little too much. The traitor, aka BHO, didn’t survive the ‘5 Mile Alligator Buddy Swim’, very few do. Strange.
I could have not said it better…
The first action, or second, for a Republican President is to fire that Muslime CIA chief. The second is to fire all the Muslimes in the W.H. and all other agencies. But getting rid of the Muslime CIA chief is the first order. How in the devil did he get there in the first place. Oh, I forgot. We have a Muslime President and he has surrounded himself with like minded terrorist supporters.
Agreed. Also need a thorough investigation of CAIR in this country. They are known to have links to Islamic terrorist groups and need to be exposed, discredited once and for all, and there would likely be some prosecutions warranted as well. But don’t stop there. our current traitor in chief needs to be thoroughly investigated as well. He is the enemy within.
I hear there are plenty of vacancies at Club GitMo…should be a popular destination for traitors and (Geneva Convention non-compliant) enemy combatants, et al. Military Tribunal and Scaffolds should be able to take care of any “over bookings”…I’d hate to see any precious metals wasted on them.
So what, this guy is a muslim Democrat … soon to be looking for a job.
The Director of the CIA serves at the behest of the President! If he cannot or will not. support the President then he should act like a man and resign. Waterboarding IS NOT torture Torture is the rounding up of Christians and murdering them by beheading and crucifying men women and children. Waterboarding lets the person being questioned live!! the worst they experience if a little non permanent discomfort ! Unlike the cruel and inhumane treatment by those who laugh at us wimps.
Waterboarding does not cause physical harm. It works on the brain. It can cause permanent mental problems. These are similar to a torture that the Soviets used way-back. That consisted of placing the prisoner in body temperature water and cutting off all other feelings such as: sight, hearing, sound, and light. This literally drove a prisoner crazy. Wellllllllll?
I think the CIA chief serves at the pleasure of the president. I’m going to guess the next president will select someone to run the CIA that will understand the president gives the orders and the CIA chief is expected to follow them.
It’s chilling to think that he’s the head of the CIA. Either do your damn job or get the hell out you good for nothing buffoon. In fact why don’t you move to Iran and try telling the “nutbag” clerics there that you refuse to do what they ask. That should go over big.
What would Clinton do about all the muslims, about waterboarding, beheading of Christians just because they are Christian in the ME? Should she become prez? What would she do about the media that asks tough, controversial questions of the GOP but not of Clinton or Obama, et al? Is the media just a propaganda, gang of opinionators for the dims?
Hi Terry, Let me answer your questions – Next time you see Billary making a speech take a look at who is at her side, I can’t remember her name, but she is a Muslim, married to Anthony Weener (you remember him, the congressman who texed pictures of his package to an aid, and she is Billary’s number one aid. I hope that answers your first question. The media does not and will not ask Billary any tough questions, they have proved that over the years. They are in the pocket of the progressives and have been for years. GOD help us if Billalry is elected.
Shows how ignorant people are. The experts declare that waterboarding makes it much worse on our own captives. Radicalism is getting people killed not an unsound interrogation process. Apparently Mr. Amen has never been in combat and doesn’t know the reality.
Had you served, you would know, that torturing works both ways. You really think that your torture wish is going to reveal any actionable intelligence. Rarely Mr. Amen. You are coming from a very childish Fox news education. Very poor understanding Mr. Amen. And, it is clear that this website if filled with white supremacists who have never passed an intelligence test. Amazing, your hatred when we all know that the republiKKKan and tea parties are the parties protecting corporate welfare, millionaires and billionaires, stealing away middle class worker’s pension, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment.
Good comment
Not a problem….You will be gone.
Get real…You must be time warner as sorry as this is.
This IDIOT who is working with BHOZO and rge DOJ to Retroactively make all of CANKLES TOP SECRET E -mails recclassiv=fied as NON SECRET so that BHOZO can “PARDON HER” will not be at his DESK 2 HOURS fater a nEW President is Swirned in!!!