By CHRIS STROHM, CongressDaily
(Credit: Yuri Gripas/AFP/Getty Images)
Faced with pointed, politically charged questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee, President Obama's nominee to lead the nation's intelligence apparatus today said he backs standards for interrogating terrorism suspects but would not say whether he believes the practice of waterboarding is torture.
Retired Navy Adm. Dennis Blair, nominated to be director of national intelligence, said during his confirmation hearing he did not want to place intelligence professionals in legal jeopardy by saying that waterboarding -- under which suspects are choked with water to compel them to answer questions -- is torture. As Blair was testifying, Obama signed executive orders requiring intelligence agencies to use the Army Field Manual in carrying out interrogations and ordering a review of detainee policy.
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