Washington – 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.
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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.
If he doesn’t want to do his job then he would be fired. No big deal. I’m sure plenty of other qualified people can take his place. Water boarding is a joke. It’s a simulation of drowning which of course is very nasty It’s not actual drowning or physical harm. But these people are killers that want you all dead. And if they have information to stop further terror of course you use it!
The President is the commander-in-chief and any military employee who disobeys his order should be court-martialed.
The head of the CIA is not a ‘military employee’, whatever that means, and service members are supposed illegal orders.
Just following orders doesn’t get anyone off in a court of law.
What an idiot. Let’s see what he would do if it was his son or daughter was kidnapped and he needed information.. every politician involved in security needs to ask themselves that question 10x a day.
A war crime is an act that constitutes a serious violation of the law of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility. Examples of war crimes include intentionally killing civilians or prisoners, torture, destroying civilian property, taking hostages, perfidy, rape, using child soldiers, pillaging, declaring that no quarter will be given, and using weapons that cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering. (From Wikipedia)
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And, what was the purpose in him announcing this today? Makes no sense. The enemy should shake in their boots, not be warned of disobedience by the head of the CIA.