Haspel nomination clouded by her past – but also by today’s context
May 09, 2018
3 minutes
Gina Haspel says she will not resume the Central Intelligence Agency’s brutal interrogation programs of the past. As a CIA official in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Ms. Haspel supervised waterboarding and other questioning techniques considered by many to be torture. But now she is President Trump’s nominee to head the CIA, and she pledges the agency will never resume that activity if she can help it.
“I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership CIA will not restart such a detention and
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