
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's pick for CIA director, John Brennan, withdrew from consideration for the job in 2008 amid criticism over the agency's use of harsh interrogation techniques like waterboarding against terrorist suspects. This time, he's making it clear he strongly opposes such practices.
Former and current U.S. intelligence officials say Brennan wasn't so vocal a decade ago.
Flip-flop likely to examined during confirmation