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Michele Bachmann said Monday that President Obama was "clearly wrong" in calling waterboarding "torture" and unnecessary to fighting the war on terror.

"No one died from the use of waterboarding. Is it uncomfortable? Yes, it's uncomfortable. But our worry should not be the comfort level of terrorists," Bachmann said Monday on Fox News.

The Minnesota congresswoman had attacked the president over the weekend for discontinuing the practice, saying that it effectively led to the ACLU running the CIA. But Obama defended his decision at a press conference Saturday in Hawaii.

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