CIA to GOP Candidates: We’ll skip practices which lead to years long investigations, thanks
CIA reluctant to resume waterboarding
CNN spoke to more than a half dozen current and former intelligence officials who all believe waterboarding was effective in getting critical information from suspected terrorist detainees at the time it was used, but they believe CIA officers today would be very reluctant to use the technique even it was authorized by all the appropriate officials.
As Robert Grenier, the former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center put it, “people in CIA would be very, very wary about going down this road under circumstances where it is not at all clear there is a political consensus behind the use of those sort of aggressive measures.”
Another official said: “When you have years-long investigations into past practices, it’s unlikely that you want to spend a minute engaged in them.”