Gina
Haspel now appears to have secured enough votes to be confirmed as
director of the Central Intelligence Agency, after two additional Senate
Democrats today announced they will vote for her.
NEW: @SenBillNelson also a YES on Gina Haspel’s nomination to be CIA Director.
5 SENATE DEM YES VOTES ON HASPEL: Warner Heitkamp Donnelly Manchin Nelson
You can be personally responsible for destroying evidence of
torture to prevent war crimes prosecution, and then return to lead the
very agency you dirtied with your obscene embrace of Nazi/Communist bad
guy tactics.
In 2002, she ran a C.I.A. prison in Thailand during
which a captured Qaeda detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused
of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of the American destroyer Cole off
the coast of Yemen, was subjected to waterboarding and other coercive
techniques. She was also involved in the agency’s destruction of tapes
of interrogation sessions in 2005.
