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LEGACY OF BRUTALITY
Torture Black-Site Chief Gina Haspel Becomes Trump’s New CIA Director
Gina Haspel, a crucial figure in post-9/11 torture, obscured her involvement in the agency’s brutal interrogation program. The Senate just rewarded her.
SPENCER ACKERMAN
05.17.18
...“The DOJ [Justice Department] recommended Haspel be held accountable for the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes. And the tapes were destroyed, in part, in fear Congress would see them. The CIA ignored the recommendation. And Haspel kept being promoted,” Daniel J. Jones, the lead investigator of the Senate torture report and a former FBI counterterrorism analyst, told The Daily Beast.
In its public portrayal of Haspel as a gender pioneer and an intelligence officer par excellence, the CIA played down Haspel’s torture record, tacitly arguing that it ought to be considered a footnote to a storied career. Yet Trump, who has publicly enthused about torture, blasted the opposition to Haspel’s directorship by saying she had “come under fire because she was too tough on Terrorists,” indicating that Trump considered Haspel’s involvement in torture to be a credential...
