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John McCain presses CIA director nominee Gina Haspel on role in agency's torture program
I don't get it. Why's McCain so sensitive about torture?
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is asking Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, to explain her involvement in the spy agency’s enhanced interrogation program.
Trump announced his plan to nominate Haspel, the CIA’s current deputy director, this month to replace CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who the president nominated to become secretary of state. But Haspel has come under scrutiny from senators for her involvement in the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
“Over the course of your career with the intelligence community, you have served in positions of responsibility that have intersected with the CIA’s program of so-called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’” McCain wrote in a letter to Haspel on Friday. “These techniques included the practice of waterboarding, forced nudity and humiliation, facial and abdominal slapping, dietary manipulation, stress positions, cramped confinement, striking, and more than 48 hours of sleep deprivation."
I don't get it. Why's McCain so sensitive about torture?