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CIA Director Says He Would Resign If Ordered To Resume Waterboarding
OANN ^ | July 14,2016 | By Jonathan Landay

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2013; bleedingheartattack; brennan; brookings; brookingsinstitution; cia; interrogation; johnbrennan; needsfired; waterboarding
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To: Hojczyk

He is probably afraid they will waterboard him to find out how many fifth columnists the Jihadists already have in the U.S. HALLS OP POWER.


81 posted on 07/13/2016 7:22:54 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Hojczyk

Fine. We didn’t need a muslim in charge of the CIA in the first place.


82 posted on 07/13/2016 7:23:14 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: sagar

?? There is no such thing as “complete surveillance”....


83 posted on 07/13/2016 7:23:45 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Hojczyk

If this incompetent had resigned years ago, we would be winning in Iraq and Afghanistan and possibly a lot of terrorism attacks around the world would have been prevented or blunted.

The Red Chinese raid our computer networks and programs like a kid in a candy store and this schmuck is worried about waterboarding.

We can really pick losers, can’t we?


84 posted on 07/13/2016 7:24:20 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: sagar
Instead of waterboarding, use a hatchet on each knuckle of each extremity until you feel comfortable with the information provided.

Or just nuke Mecca and Medina. Take away the fifth pillar, the Hajj, and they realize Muhammad was a false prophet, then they have no religion.

85 posted on 07/13/2016 7:24:29 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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To: Hojczyk
CIA Director Says He Would Resign If Ordered To Resume Waterboarding

Sounds good to me.

86 posted on 07/13/2016 7:24:36 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Hojczyk
CIA Director Says He Would Resign If Ordered To Resume Waterboarding

Sounds good to me.

87 posted on 07/13/2016 7:24:37 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: yarddog

After he is no longer president, I would love to have Obama waterboarded to see just how corrupt he really is.


88 posted on 07/13/2016 7:24:58 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Hojczyk

I hope doesn’t get the chance to resign. I want to see Trump say “You’re fired!”.


89 posted on 07/13/2016 7:27:18 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (hammer management)
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To: Hojczyk

“Except, of course,” he added, “for those right-wing, small-government types.”


90 posted on 07/13/2016 7:29:08 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: Hojczyk

He should resign right now for his failure to protect this coountry from terrorist attacks.


91 posted on 07/13/2016 7:30:57 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: Hojczyk

Well leave now you scum. Pack up your prayer rug, jump on your flyin’ carpet, and ride the hell out of our Country you muslim POS.


92 posted on 07/13/2016 7:32:53 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: taildragger

Yes! On Judges. There should be a standing IMPEACHMENT committee tasked with investigating complaints about these judges who think they are legislators.

They then should be able to recommend one way or another to the full Senate to put the bastards on trial if they won’t resign.

The forefathers fully intended that Federal Judges be culled out every so often. This is why they included this IMPEACHMENT authority in the Constitution.


93 posted on 07/13/2016 7:34:07 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Hojczyk

Then he should start clearing his desk out in the next 5 months.


94 posted on 07/13/2016 7:34:12 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Hojczyk
promises promises...
95 posted on 07/13/2016 7:38:23 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: yarddog

Wouldn’t even get to the act ‘dog. As soon as Barry got just a glimpse of the towel, board and water jug, his lips would start flappin’ so fast it would like how he does Reggie.


96 posted on 07/13/2016 7:38:56 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Hojczyk

Good. We will get another one.


97 posted on 07/13/2016 7:39:54 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: Hojczyk
CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday he would resign if the next president ordered his agency to resume waterboarding

moot point.
The next president will be asking for your resignation, otherwise you will be fired.
98 posted on 07/13/2016 7:40:04 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Hojczyk

I suspect Trump would clean house before this pantywaste had a chance to resign.


99 posted on 07/13/2016 7:40:12 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: MtnClimber

Can’t do that.
He knows far too much.
‘Retire’ him.


100 posted on 07/13/2016 7:40:53 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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