President Obama makes probably his last visit to the CIA, where concerns are all about Trump
President Obama arrived at CIA headquarters Wednesday for the fourth and probably final visit of his presidency to an agency that regarded him with significant apprehension when he first came to Langley in 2009.
The apprehension now is over who might be the next president to visit, particularly if it is Donald Trump.
The CIA tends to lie low during presidential election cycles, out of respect for its apolitical mission as well as a reluctance to alienate any potential commander in chief. But the Trump candidacy has triggered an unusual public outcry among CIA officers and surrogates.
CIA Director John Brennan was the latest to weigh in, saying during an NBC News appearance that the agency would never resume the use of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques, even if ordered to do so by a future president.
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