Current Events > Man, the new CIA director is a real ghoul

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https://theintercept.com/2017/02/02/trumps-cia-chief-selects-major-torture-operative-to-be-agencys-deputy-director/

IN MAY 2013, the Washington Posts Greg Miller reported that the head of the CIAs clandestine service was being shifted out of that position as a result of a management shake-up by then-Director John Brennan. As Miller documented, this official whom the paper did not name because she was a covert agent at the time was centrally involved in the worst abuses of the CIAs Bush-era torture regime.

As Miller put it, she was directly involved in its controversial interrogation program and had an extensive role in torturing detainees. Even more troubling, she had run a secret prison in Thailand part of the CIAs network of black sites where two detainees were subjected to waterboarding and other harsh techniques. The Senate Intelligence Committees report on torture also detailed the central role she played in the particularly gruesome torture of detainee Abu Zubaydah.

Beyond all that, she played a vital role in the destruction of interrogation videotapes that showed the torture of detainees both at the black site she ran and other secret agency locations. The concealment of those interrogation tapes, which violated multiple court orders as well as the demands of the 9/11 commission and the advice of White House lawyers, was condemned as obstruction by commission chairs Lee Hamilton and Thomas Keane. A special prosecutor and grand jury investigated those actions but ultimately chose not to prosecute.

The name of that CIA official whose torture activities the Post described is Gina Haspel.

In an administration not known for its moral clarity, she may be the worst monster of the bunch. Kind of impressive, in its own way.
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She sounds perfect for the job and can get things done, I see no problem here.
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She's a real piece of shit. Just like the President.
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