Poll: Waterboarding is torture, but no investigations

Most Americans, a new poll suggests, agree with President Obama -- terrorist suspects were tortured with waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques, but there shouldn't be an investigation of what happened.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this afternoon found that while 60 percent of respondents believed the tactics did amount to torture, they were evenly divided on their use -- 50 percent approved, while 46 percent disapprove.

Asked whether Congress should investigate the Bush administration officials who authorized the techniques, 57 percent answered no, and 65 percent oppose investigating those who carried out the interrogations. Also, 55 percent oppose an independent probe of those who authorized the interrogation tactics and 64 percent oppose an independent inquiry of those who conducted the interrogations.

The poll, conducted April 23-26, has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.