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CIA Unlikely To Follow GOP Presidential Candidates On Waterboarding | Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN) sparked a little life in the torture debate last weekend when they said they would be willing to put waterboarding back in the interrogation toolbox. Their comments drew sharp criticism from President Obama, and particularly Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who said he was “very disappointed” in the candidates’ comments. But while the military forbids the use of waterboarding, CNN reports that the CIA also isn’t too keen on getting back into the torture business. As Robert Grenier, the former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center put it, “people in CIA would be very, very wary about going down this road under circumstances where it is not at all clear there is a political consensus behind the use of those sort of aggressive measures.” Another official said: “When you have years-long investigations into past practices, it’s unlikely that you want to spend a minute engaged in them.”