Gina Haspel
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Gina Haspel is an official with the Central Intelligence Agency.[1][2] On February 2, 2017, newly inaugurated President Donald Trump appointed Haspel as Deputy Director of the CIA. According to the CIA she is the first woman to receive that appointment, while various news agencies report she is the second woman.[3][4][5]
Human Rights workers and legal critics noted that Haspel was in charge of the secret CIA torture site in Thailand where the agency first experimented with torture, where Abu Zubaydah and al Nashiri were waterboarded.[1] Critics saw the appointment as Trump administration directly rewarding one of the CIA's most central characters in its torture scandal.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Glenn Greenwald (2017-02-02). "The CIA’s New Deputy Director Ran a Black Site for Torture". The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2017/02/02/trumps-cia-chief-selects-major-torture-operative-to-be-agencys-deputy-director/. Retrieved 2017-02-03. "That CIA official’s name whose torture activities the Post described is Gina Haspel. Today, as BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold noted, CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced that Haspel was selected by Trump to be Deputy Director of the CIA."
- ↑ "Gina Haspel becomes first female CIA deputy director". WDSU. 2017-02-02. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20170202232911/http://www.wdsu.com/article/gina-haspel-becomes-first-female-cia-deputy-director/8670139. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
- ↑ "Gina Haspel Selected to be Deputy Director of CIA". CIA. Archived from the original on 2017-02-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20170203110501/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/2017-press-releases-statements/gina-haspel-selected-to-be-deputy-director-of-cia.html. "Ms. Haspel is the first female career CIA officer to be named Deputy Director."
- ↑ Suman Varandani (2017-02-03). "Who Is Gina Haspel? 5 Facts About Trump's CIA Deputy Director Pick". International Business Times. http://www.ibtimes.com/who-gina-haspel-5-facts-about-trumps-cia-deputy-director-pick-2485705. Retrieved 2017-02-03. "Haspel joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985, and spent most of her career undercover. She has been part of several controversies, including her involvement in several torture programs conducted by the U.S. She also ran waterboarding and other interrogation techniques at some of CIA's "black sites" or secret prisons."
- ↑ Paul Handley (2017-02-02). "Woman tied to secret interrogations to be CIA No. 2". Washington DC: Yahoo News. https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-tied-secret-interrogations-cia-no-2-215033212.html. Retrieved 2017-02-03. "A longtime CIA clandestine operations official reportedly involved in its much-criticized "black site" interrogations after the 9/11 attacks was named number two at the US spy agency Thursday."
