CIA nominee Gina Haspel was involved in torture program

President Donald Trump's new nominee for CIA director is a 30-year officer in the agency who was involved in secret torture programs for terrorism suspects.


If confirmed, Gina Haspel would be the first woman to lead the CIA. Trump tapped Haspel on Tuesday to replace CIA Director Mike Pompeo, whom he nominated to take over as secretary of state after Rex Tillerson was ousted.

Haspel joined the CIA in 1985 and has spent most of her career undercover.

She was involved in the secret CIA program known by its initials, R.D.I. -- rendition, detention and interrogation. The program involved the CIA not only torturing suspects but also kidnapping them from other countries and delivering them to other locations around the globe to be interrogated.
   (UPI)
 13/3/18
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