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Source: Government Executive Magazine
As CIA director Mike Pompeo moves to become the United States Secretary of State, deputy director Gina Haspel has been nominated to lead the agency. If confirmed by the Senate, she will become the first woman to run the CIA.
Haspels nomination will be controversial; she played a leading role (paywall) in running a U.S. torture site abroad and later destroyed the evidence of it.
In 2002, she oversaw a secret prison in Thailand that tortured two terrorism suspects. That torture took place within the CIAs extraordinary rendition program, in which suspected terrorists are sent to US allies, and interrogated in black sites on their soil.
One of the men, known as Abu Zubayda, was waterboarded 83 times in one month and was slammed into walls by the head. He was deprived of sleep and kept in a coffin-like box. Interrogators later decided he didnt have any useful information.
Read more: http://www.govexec.com/defense/2018/03/cias-new-nominee-director-gina-haspel-once-ran-torture-site-and-destroyed-evidence/146618/?oref=river
I'm speechless.
""She had one man waterboarded 83 times in a single month in a Thai "black site".