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Donald Trump's choice for CIA chief is privately assuring senators that she will not reinstitute a detention and interrogation program and will make the pledge publicly at her May 9 confirmation hearing, two sources said on Friday.
Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel plans to give the commitment in her "opening statement and she has been telling members that as well," a congressional aide told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Word of the pledge comes as Haspel's nomination encounters opposition over her role in a now-defunct program in which the agency detained and interrogated al Qaeda suspects in secret prisons overseas using techniques widely condemned as torture.
An administration official confirmed that Haspel has been pledging in private interviews with senators that she will never allow the CIA to revive a detention and interrogation program.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cia-nominee-to-pledge-not-to-restart-detention-interrogation-programs-sources/ar-AAwrqLd?li=BBnb7Kz
Uh huh
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,690 posts)and will probably pull her nomination in favor of someone who promises to reinstate waterboarding, with the occasional use of thumbscrews for good measure.
Solly Mack
(90,921 posts)That changes her war crimes how?
Crimes against humanity she was never prosecuted for and was allowed to get away with free and clear.
Seriously.
I pledge to never commit war crimes again, so please reward me. Not that I haven't already been rewarded by not being charged for being the piece of shit war criminal that I am - I still want more rewards.
Sick, sick country.