John Brennan unimpressed by Richard Burr's waterboarding joke

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No better time for a waterboarding joke then when you're questioning the prospective CIA chief. At least that's what Republican senator Richard Burr from North Carolina, thought.

"I'll be brief," Burr said at the start of his second-round question for Brennan.

"You're on your fourth glass of water and I don't want to be accused of waterboarding you."

Brennan, who has repeatedly dodged the question of whether waterboarding constitutes torture, did not seem to appreciate the humor.

The joke recalled John McCain's warning that the foreign relations committee would waterboard secretary of state nominee John Kerry to "get the truth out of him."

Torture jokes: they never get old.

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