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Here's an op-ed by Michael Hayden, written less than 5 years ago, comparing those who oppose waterboarding to birthers and truthers: http://www.wsj.com/articles

• kafkaesq 11y ago
  Strictly speaking, he wasn't comparing people who "opposed" waterboarding to birthers or truthers; but rather "interrogation deniers", or in his own words: individuals who hold that the enhanced interrogation techniques used against CIA detainees have never yielded useful intelligence. Still, the juxtaposition of operative viewpoints is... fascinating, to say the least. On the whole it sounds like waterboarding has been added to the list of things the CIA continually swears it would "never do" -- like, you know, assassinating foreign leaders; getting into bed with torturers, death squads, drug runners and mafiosi of various stripes; spying on not just on American citizens, but on rival branches of the U.S. government itself -- but of course has kept on doing, and doing, and doing anyway, since its very inception.