"Nobody's above the law," Mr Obama said in an interview with the American CBS television programme look The Nation.
The US Attorney General Eric Holder last month named as prosecutor to examine whether the CIA had gone beyond approved interrogation methods.
The former heads wrote to Mr Barrack Obama saying the probe would hamper CIA work.
They said the cases had already been investigate during the Bush administration and lawyers had declined to prosecute in all but one.
"This approach will seriously injure the willingness of intelligence officers to take risks to protect the country," their letter read.
"In our judgment, such risk-taking is imperative to success in the long and difficult fight against terrorists who continue to threaten us."
The former CIA chiefs serve under Republican and Democratic presidents.
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