Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick for CIA Director, Ran a Black Site for Torture

[tyroneweaver]

Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick for CIA Director, Ran a Black Site for Torture


Only the best people--

"In May 2013, the Washington Post’s Greg Miller reported that the head of the CIA’s 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 CIA’s 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 CIA’s network of “black sites” — “where two detainees were subjected to waterboarding and other harsh techniques.” The Senate Intelligence Committee’s 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. Today, as BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold noted, CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced that Haspel was selected by Trump to be deputy director of the CIA."

Can’t wait for the Secretary of Torture to go through confirmation.

Hope she sues that pants off the person that wrote this fallacious story
The retraction they gave wouldn't be enough for me.

 

[longknife]

Some Truth About Haspel

The media is, of course, doing everything they can to destroy the president's nominee for CIA Director. She's been accused of running a "black site" to torture terrorists. Well, here;'s a bit of a crack in the story.

Haspel was nominated to the deputy CIA director post in February 2017. ProPublica published their story alleging that Haspel oversaw the implementation of enhanced interrogation techniques in 2002 at a secret “black site” in Thailand.

A year after the publication of the original story, ProPublica admitted that Haspel wasn’t in charge of the site until after the specific interrogation they reported ended. Haspel was nominated by the president to be the CIA’s first female director, if approved.

“Correction: Trump’s pick to head the CIA did not oversee waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah,” read a tweet from the official ProPublica account.

“This error was particularly unfortunate because it muddied an important national debate about Haspel and the CIA’s recent history,” the apology read. “To her, and to our readers, we can only apologize, correct the record and make certain that we do better in the future.”

In other words, more fake news.

Full story @ One year after this damaging story about Trump’s CIA nominee, a major correction w/links and Tweets

 

[tyroneweaver]

Some Truth About Haspel

The media is, of course, doing everything they can to destroy the president's nominee for CIA Director. She's been accused of running a "black site" to torture terrorists. Well, here;'s a bit of a crack in the story.

Haspel was nominated to the deputy CIA director post in February 2017. ProPublica published their story alleging that Haspel oversaw the implementation of enhanced interrogation techniques in 2002 at a secret “black site” in Thailand.

A year after the publication of the original story, ProPublica admitted that Haspel wasn’t in charge of the site until after the specific interrogation they reported ended. Haspel was nominated by the president to be the CIA’s first female director, if approved.

“Correction: Trump’s pick to head the CIA did not oversee waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah,” read a tweet from the official ProPublica account.

“This error was particularly unfortunate because it muddied an important national debate about Haspel and the CIA’s recent history,” the apology read. “To her, and to our readers, we can only apologize, correct the record and make certain that we do better in the future.”

In other words, more fake news.

Full story @ One year after this damaging story about Trump’s CIA nominee, a major correction w/links and Tweets

Yup fake news.
And of course the usual cast of characters believed it because like moths to a flame; it was supposed to embarrass Trump.

 

[sartre play]

Is she good at her job? that is the only question. some one jumped to quick to find fault. some one else is to blame for the torture, two wrongs do not make a right.

 

[Missourian]

Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick for CIA Director, Ran a Black Site for Torture

Good.

 

[MikeK]

Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick for CIA Director, Ran a Black Site for Torture


Only the best people--

"In May 2013, the Washington Post’s Greg Miller reported that the head of the CIA’s 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 CIA’s 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 CIA’s network of “black sites” — “where two detainees were subjected to waterboarding and other harsh techniques.” The Senate Intelligence Committee’s 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. Today, as BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold noted, CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced that Haspel was selected by Trump to be deputy director of the CIA."

So what?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick for CIA Director, Ran a Black Site for Torture


Only the best people--

"In May 2013, the Washington Post’s Greg Miller reported that the head of the CIA’s 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 CIA’s 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 CIA’s network of “black sites” — “where two detainees were subjected to waterboarding and other harsh techniques.” The Senate Intelligence Committee’s 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. Today, as BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold noted, CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced that Haspel was selected by Trump to be deputy director of the CIA."

Its a message to Comey and Mueller

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Republicans:

Family Values
God
Torture
Guns

It all goes together.

Dems booed G-d and Obama closed Gitmo. Oh, wait