Gina Haspel. the nominee to head the CIA, attends the ceremonial swearing-in of Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state on Wednesday in Washington. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Washington Post: Gina Haspel, nominee to head CIA, sought to withdraw over questions about her role in agency interrogation program
Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role in the interrogation of terrorist suspects could prevent her confirmation by the Senate, according to four senior U.S. officials.
Haspel told the White House she was interested in stepping aside if it avoided the spectacle of a brutal confirmation hearing on Wednesday and potential damage to the CIA’s reputation and her own, the officials said. She was summoned to the White House on Friday for a meeting on her history in the CIA’s controversial interrogation program — which employed techniques such as waterboarding that are widely seen as torture — and signaled that she was going to withdraw her nomination. She then returned to CIA headquarters, the officials said.
Taken aback at her stance, senior White House aides, including legislative affairs head Marc Short and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, rushed to Langley, Va., to meet with Haspel at her office late Friday afternoon. Discussions stretched several hours, officials said, and the White House was not entirely sure she would stick with her nomination until Saturday afternoon, according to the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
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WNU Editor: Many in the intelligence community support her. Some in the military do not .... More Than 100 Retired Military Leaders Raise Concerns About CIA Nominee Gina Haspel (Time). The main stream media is mostly voicing their opposition in the opinion pages .... We should oppose Gina Haspel's CIA nomination because of her torture record (The Hill). The administration is calling Democrats hypocrites for rejecting the first female CIA Director nominee .... Sarah Sanders says Democrats who support women, don't vote for new CIA director are 'hypocrites' (ABC New). As to what is my take .... I want to know if can she do the job? Being there for almost 33 years tells me that she probably does know what she is doing .... and more to the point .... knowing what everyone else is doing. She is also 61 .... which tells me that this will be her last post in the CIA.
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no. she offered to.
Tortures....of course that's bad, but we still accept a lot of world leader who are doing worse! She also didn't do that alone and probably under order. So what? We just need someone competent, not a saint.
"We just need someone competent, not a saint." Very well said. Thus far POTUS has put forth compentent people. There's really no reason to doubt her competence. It'd be to bad if she's forced out due to strictly partisain political reasons.
@ B.Poster & jac
I'm sure she's very "competent". Lavrentiy Beria and Genrikh Yagoda were "competent", too.
Monsters, but competent.
Unlike you, I never want to see another human being tortured. Period.
Thus far POTUS has put forth compentent people.
THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE DUMBEST COMMENT OF THE YEAR
The Trump appointees with almost no exceptions are unfit for the jobs they were given and hardly last more than a few weeks or months...ps: no teach spelling in Russian schools for English as a Troll language?
I think Mattis was and is a good appointee, for example.
Anon, Trump's management style is fast paced. Some have trouble handling it. With that said people such as James Mattis and John Kelly have been there from the beginning.
You have no counter point to make. You have been beaten. Therefore you must resort to the desperation of trying to label me as a Russian troll.
Anon,
I completely understand what you mean with "Lavrentiy Beria and Genrikh Yagoda" and I agree with you. But, take a look: that's a little bit "exaggerated" to confuse the time, the political system and the environment for making a parallel. Why not to compare Trump and Attila?
Agreed!! This is a man who has TREMENDOUS respect among US military personnel. I know a number of them.
He did not need to take this position. The fact that he did tells us a great deal about the character of our current POTUS.
She is probably the most qualified for the job so give it to her. Anyone else will just follow in her footsteps, become a criminal, if they aren't already, and retire on pension in due course. In doing so however, at least have the decency to admit that the country has no interest or intention of obeying international law, something everyone else in the the world, and his dog, already knows so just cut the crap and get out of the UN.
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