Hayden: CIA will follow waterboarding ban if passed.

In a memo to agency employees, CIA Director Michael Hayden said that he opposed legislation in Congress that would place the agency’s interrogation program under the dictates of the U.S. Army Field Manual, but would follow the law. “If the Intelligence Authorization Bill becomes law, these procedures will be taken off the board for American interrogators,” wrote Hayden. The law, according to Hayden, “will have a direct impact on our ability to gather intelligence and to detect and prevent future attacks.”