Comey: 'I Urged Not to Waterboard'
In a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, Obama's nominee for FBI director, James Comey, said that while he authorized waterboarding as attorney general under George W. Bush, he nevertheless believed it to be torture. Comey added that he had asked the administration to stop using the tactic.
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