CIA Director’s Goals for Next Administration Don’t Include Resuming Torture

Government Executive: Fresh off a planning meeting for the coming presidential transition, CIA Director John Brennan on Tuesday night named three items he hopes to see from the next administration: an embrace of digital intelligence tools; a congressional commission on balancing security with civil rights; and—most dramatically—a rejection of the proposal by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that his agency resume the controversial “enhanced interrogation” of suspected terrorists.

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