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Gina Haspel Used To Work For Me. She's A Great Choice For CIA Director

Former CIA case officer Robert Baer supervised Gina Haspel and says she's the right person to talk President Trump out of potential foreign policy disasters.

I supervised Gina Haspel when I worked at the Central Intelligence Agency. I found her to be smart, tough and effective. Foreign liaison services who've worked with her uniformly walked away impressed. Out of all of the chaos coming out of the White House these days, the one bit of promising news is the nomination of Haspel as the new CIA director.

Confessing to a certain bias, Haspel's long tenure overseas I hope will give the Trump administration an experienced, pragmatic view of the world it increasingly thinks it can do without. Locating, say, Kandahar,

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