President barack Obama's nominee as cia director John Brennan about leak sensitive information and American spy activities from the use of waterboarding unmanned aircraft, will face severe question, he in the senate confirmation hearings on Thursday.
Posted on the senate intelligence committee website Wednesday in submit written opinions, Brennan admits he voluntary survey interview leak, in Baltimore and Washington federal prosecutors are first.
Brennan said, investigation involves to Iran's network warfare and defeat the bomb plot bind "base" organization yemen branch. Brennan said, his lawyer told procurators, he is "witness" two of the survey.
However, the leakage intelligence committee member questioned Brennan, a former CIA chief according to President George w. bush, has become the steward Obama's unmanned policy one of the major problems.
Congressional aides said question is expected to focus on what Brennan know about the bush administration's use harsh interrogation techniques on islamic militants capture of a criminal suspect, and hold, sometimes in secret cia prison, September 11,, after two ○ ○ a year against the United States.
Human rights activists and including intelligence committee chairs senator FanShiDan and republican senator John McCain, many American politicians, condemnation of torture interrogation methods.
Democrats are also questioned, the White House senior adviser Brennan in the war on terrorism and homeland security, the Obama government use armed drone attack countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan and yemen suspected al qaeda militants and camp.
Despite the anticipated problems of the, the senate's assistant and political steeplechase said, they have felt rising against the Brennan nomination.
Brennan as Obama CIA nominee in 2008 first appeared, but, human rights activists protest, he quit his equivocal public statements about the mechanism of "strengthening trial" technology, including called "waterboarding simulated drowning practice."
This time, human rights groups had Brennan, but against conservative groups to chuck · 13 Israel hagel, Mr Obama's nominee to replace Leon · palmer inside tower in the pentagon installation level far from close to.
Waterboarding QUESTIONS
Brennan knowledge waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques may provoke fierce questioned.
According to Reuters source earlier this month, on the basis of such points CIA news flow display, Brennan in detail, the CIA use "strengthen the trial technology", including waterboarding knowledge.
After that, he leave for the government in 2005, Brennan declared abandoned waterboarding and other physical pain interrogation methods. He and Obama government officials also said Brennan private against intelligence officials to the use of technology.
Participate in the plan of the former bush administration officials said that they don't remember such objections.
In his intelligence committee submit written opinions, Brennan announced that he had "major concerns and personal opposition, and this is the ongoing enterprise income tax law (trial strengthening technology)" plan a lot of elements.
"I put forward the objection, private and the agency's colleagues," Brennan continue to added: "when I left the agent, I speak openly about these concerns.
He thought, was appointed as the White House adviser on terror, "I am in a position, the influence is decision related EITS, such as how do we deal with questioning, I strongly support the President's ban technology."
The central intelligence agency under the bush administration, under the leadership of the ran network of overseas secret prisons, many of the so-called enhanced questioned, is now "custody business, it should keep it."
Uav program
About unmanned aircraft, this week is expected to not classification the justice department documents, summarizes Obama government legal reasons, the use of armed drone attacks on the United States citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activities leakage problems.
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