During her tenure, she was in charge of a "black site" prison — a facility where detainees were interrogated using methods such as waterboarding.
Trump has skipped many of the daily intelligence briefings prepared for him, suggesting that he finds them repetitive and unnecessary, and he suggested that he would push the CIA to resume the use of counterterrorism tactics that were dismantled years ago, including the simulated drowning interrogation method known as waterboarding.
Even George J. Tenet, the C.I.A. director who insisted that the agency had thoroughly researched its proposal and pressed it on other officials, did not examine the history of the most shocking method, the near-drowning technique known as waterboarding.
More than four years have passed since the C.I.A. closed its secret prisons, and nearly a decade since agency interrogators subjected Qaeda detainees to the most brutal interrogation methods, including the near-drowning technique known as waterboarding.
Those methods included slapping, humiliation, exposure to cold, sleep deprivation and the near-drowning technique known as waterboarding.
In the years that followed, according to yesterday's report, there were numerous internal legal reviews, suggesting government lawyers were concerned that methods such as waterboarding might violate federal laws against torture and the US constitution.
Brennan's role in that program and the extent of his involvement in and knowledge of severe interrogation methods such as waterboarding during the Bush era were the subject of pointed questioning during his confirmation hearings after Obama nominated him to head the CIA in January 2013.
Suspects were interrogated using methods such as waterboarding, slapping, humiliation, exposure to cold and sleep deprivation.
During the presidency of George W Bush, the CIA operation known internally as the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation programme saw as many as 100 suspected terrorists held in "black sites" outside the US and interrogated using methods such as waterboarding, slapping, humiliation, exposure to cold, and sleep deprivation.
The awful acts of past wars make modern interrogation methods such as waterboarding seem like an afternoon at Disneyland.
