Posted on 04/10/2016 4:13:09 PM PDT by lowbridge
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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In other words, we will, but we’ll deny it every time we’re asked about it.
I read that as a Leftist saying he won’t follow the Commander in Chief.
To heck with that! He’ll do as he is told or find new employment.
Hey, man, whatever it takes to save our country.
If this guy isn’t willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES, because he’s so PC, then President Trump can simply say......
YOU’RE FIRED!
: )
“...even if ordered to by a future president.”
He’s an idiot. Not because he is opposing the waterboarding, although that can be argued, but because he is stupid enough to think he knows what every CIA employee would be willing to do out of his earshot or eye sight. He’s an idiot.
NEVER AGAIN shall you defy my beloved Allah..!!!
But it's not "his" agency -- it is our agency.
"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.
Presumably, Director Brennan understands that he does not hold a lifetime appointment, and therefore where he personally would give an order only matters as long as he is DCIA. Which I don't imagine would last long if Trump was elected.
He’s a Mohammedan convert.
The man who stole Obama’s passport info worked for the company for which Brennan was an executive member, and after the crime that thief was shot through the skull while sitting in his car in front of his DC church.
So who is the REAL Prez...??
I agree. No terrorist should ever be waterboarded again. We should just go ahead and drown them.
I agree. No terrorist should ever be waterboarded again. We should just go ahead and drown them.
Is the Director of the CIA really so obtuse, and have such a limited perspective that he swears this statement will always be true?
Wait until some a Muslim group sets off a dirty nuke in Manhattan, or poisons a major city’s water supply, or something similar. This doofus will be singing a different tune.
Brennan is INCOMPETENT
he botched afghanistan, egypt, iraq, lybia and syria
he is a dolt and a yes man...
besidse he wont last as director anyhow...
Brennan is a muslim convert. That statement was a wink and a nod to his and Obunga’s terrorist pals that the lid’s off, they have carte blanche, let ‘er rip! None of them will be waterboarded. Another reason why we need Trump.
Wanna bet?
outsource it
Yet Obama and Brennan are A-OK with droning people (including innocents) never given a day in court.
Director Precious Snowflake
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