President Donald Trump's pick for CIA director is about to experience a good Borking.
Gina Haspel's long career at the agency, including extensive work undercover in the field, is getting blotted out by her reported involvement in the CIA's black-site interrogation program, which has become a warrant to say anything about her.
Her critics assert she should be in jail, and the New York Times editorial page wrote about her nomination under the headline "Having a Torturer Lead the C.I.A.".
Their factual accuracy aside, the attacks on Haspel are ahistorical in that they ignore the context of the CIA program, and unfair insofar as they portray her as a remorselessly cruel prime mover behind it.
The CIA repeatedly briefed select congressional leaders, especially the top Republicans and Democrats on the intelligence committees.
Haspel is connected in the press to the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, although the CIA hasn't confirmed her participation in the oversight of any particular detainee and insists much of the reporting about her work in this period is erroneous.
The CIA didn't learn of any planned attack in the U.S.; it did become confident that Zubaydah wasn't holding back anything about one.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/gina-haspel-cia-nominee-strong-record/
Gina Haspel's long career at the agency, including extensive work undercover in the field, is getting blotted out by her reported involvement in the CIA's black-site interrogation program, which has become a warrant to say anything about her.
Her critics assert she should be in jail, and the New York Times editorial page wrote about her nomination under the headline "Having a Torturer Lead the C.I.A.".
Their factual accuracy aside, the attacks on Haspel are ahistorical in that they ignore the context of the CIA program, and unfair insofar as they portray her as a remorselessly cruel prime mover behind it.
The CIA repeatedly briefed select congressional leaders, especially the top Republicans and Democrats on the intelligence committees.
Haspel is connected in the press to the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, although the CIA hasn't confirmed her participation in the oversight of any particular detainee and insists much of the reporting about her work in this period is erroneous.
The CIA didn't learn of any planned attack in the U.S.; it did become confident that Zubaydah wasn't holding back anything about one.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/gina-haspel-cia-nominee-strong-record/
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