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Gina Haspel’s Torture and Coverup Involvement threatens to derail her nomination
In 2014, a senior ex-CIA official was unequivocal: She was in charge of interrogations. …
She directly ran the black site, though after Zubaydah’s most intense period of torture that year. …
But in his 2014 book, John Rizzo, a longtime senior CIA lawyer, indicated that Haspel was responsible for the incommunicado detention and torture not of two men, but of dozens, potentially. Former intelligence officials interviewed by The Daily Beast have portrayed Haspel’s experience similarly.
Rizzo, in his memoir, Company Man, looked back on … the fateful November 2005 decision, made by Haspel’s then-boss Jose Rodriguez with her support, to destroy 92 videotapes depicting the 2002 torture of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri.
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