[Guardian] A future president Trump or Cruz could be defied by his own intelligence chief, after CIA director John Brennan said on Sunday he would not allow members of his agency to carry out torture techniques such as waterboarding."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 told NBC News.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the leading two Republican candidates in a field of three, have suggested they would use waterboarding and other controversial "enhanced interrogation techniques" against terror suspects.
Cruz has said he does not consider waterboarding to be torture, and would "use whatever enhanced interrogation methods we could to keep this country safe".
In the aftermath of the Brussels bombings last month, Trump told NBC: "If they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding. You have to get the information from people."