Posted on 07/13/2016 6:39:13 PM PDT by Hojczyk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday he would resign if the next president ordered his agency to resume waterboarding suspected militants, an apparent reference to comments by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump embracing the banned interrogation method.”I can say that as long as I’m director of CIA, irrespective of what the president says, I’m not going to be the director of CIA that gives that order. They’ll have to find another director,” said Brennan, who did not mention Trump by name.
Brennan, who has been director since 2013, tacked his comment to the end of his response to a question about drone strike policy after speaking at the Brookings Institution, a Washington policy institute.Brennan said previously he would refuse to resume the practice, which simulates drowning and was used by the CIA on three suspected militants detained in secret foreign prisons during President George W. Bush’s administration.
But his pledge to resign if ordered to revive waterboarding was his most emphatic affirmation of his position to date.
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Bye bye!!!!
I love that image. It is so perfect on so many threads!
Thanks for letting us know what it would take. Now watch him walk it back. “I was obviously being sarcastic!”. He is part of the problem that I hope goes away with Obama.
For insubordination, without pension.
Cue the “well by then” guy!
Hey Johnny, the sooner the better.
Except for now, the most dangerous time for this country will be from the election on, with a Trump win, and quite possibly, without it.
Bye
Bye Bye Baby
Maybe he should read his history books and familiarize himself with the Bataan Death March to be reminded of what our troops have suffered rather than worry about our enemies.
That’s one thing al-Brennan doesn’t have to worry about. Trump would fire him way before any jihadis were interrogated.
Like all the Federal Judges that Obama appointed? Remember the Clinton precedent of firing 150 of them in one day. Also all Dept heads should be asked ( Like many DA's do after being elected ) for letters of pending resignation and their resumes and get back to them in 90 days if they are in or out.
BTW, HR usually walks you out or they send a Corporate Guard to do so in a downsizing. IMHO team Trump will have to deputize or hire a lot of guards that 1st day either by the ones he ask to go, or those who self select too go.
This chump just might be one of the first to experience the new ‘enhanced interrogation’ procedures of the Trump Administration.
Yes yes agree...it’s so much better to blow them into a .gazzilion pieces. The guilty with the innocent.
Never mind that the guilty might have knowledge of a coming WMD attack.
We have to be nice
Would Trump keep anyone who worked during bozo’s 2 terms?
I very much doubt it.
SURE you would... *snort*
(/sarc)
Yeah.
He could hire some Koreans on a contract basis.
They drone anyone, men, women & children, but can’t waterboard terrorists... LOL.
Is there a down side to this?
Or render you unable to speak.
Jay’s name was spelled Jeh by his mother.
I’ve heard that too, but can’t confirm it either.
There are enough known muslims in this administration to be worrisome.
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