As CIA director Mike Pompeo moves to become the United States’ secretary of state, deputy director Gina Haspel has been nominated to lead the agency. If confirmed by the Senate, she will become the first woman to run the CIA.
Haspel’s nomination will be controversial; she played a leading role (paywall) in running a US torture site abroad and later destroyed the evidence of it.
In 2002, she oversaw a secret prison in Thailand that tortured two terrorism suspects. That torture took place within the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program, in which suspected terrorists are sent to US allies, and interrogated in “black sites” on their soil.
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Considering what the CIA appears to have become, she may be the perfect woman for the job.
But ... she's got a LONG way to go before she equals the atrocities of Madeleine (it was worth it) Albright or Hillary (we came, we saw, he died) Clinton.
Time will tell.
By the way, I'm sure Pompeo has no real clue how to address this pit of vipers:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-officials-meet-Qatari-Saudi-and-UAE-counterparts-at-White-House-544980
Perhaps all he has to do is say "raze Gaza" to get a standing ovation.