CIA Director John Brennan has said that his spy agency will not use controversial interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, even if ordered to do so by a future president.<br />"I will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniques I've heard bandied about because this institution needs to endure," he said.<br />Brennan later added that he would "not agree to having any CIA officer carrying out waterboarding again."<br />President Barack Obama banned waterboarding shortly after taking office in 2009.<br />Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have suggested they would not continue Obama's ban.<br />Trump has gone as far as to say that he would bring back waterboarding and "worse" tactics to get information.<br />The CIA used such interrogation techniques after the Sept. 11 attacks.
