Posted on 03/13/2018 6:21:35 AM PDT by Helicondelta
President Donald Trump on Tuesday named Gina Haspel as the first woman head of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Trump also replaced US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA director Mike Pompeo.
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Yo.
Trump just placed the former head of the CIA in charge of State, to personally go through Cankles’ files.
https://twitter.com/LarrySchweikart/status/973560257032024064
MAGA! Trump is replacing Obama’s effete metero-cowards with ass-kickers!
Ah ,here’s your Female 007
Sure wish Gina had a Mitch Rapp!
She appears to be one tough woman..
Per Wiki:
Haspel ran a “black site” CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002.[5][6] The site was codenamed “Cat’s Eye” and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods.[7][8] Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a “large box”, had his head slammed against a wall and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence (Interrogation of Abu Zubaydah).[9]
Haspel later was the chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez, who headed the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had “drafted a cable” in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand.[8]
In 2013, John Brennan, then the director of Central Intelligence, named Haspel as acting Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service, which carries out covert operations around the globe.[10] However, she was denied the position permanently due to criticism about her involvement in the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program.[11] Haspel has also served as the Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Foreign Intelligence and Covert Action.[5]
Haspel is the recipient of the George H. W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism, the Donovan Award, the Intelligence Medal of Merit and the Presidential Rank Award.[1]
On February 2, 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Haspel deputy director of the CIA. On February 8, 2017, several members of the Senate intelligence committee urged Trump to reconsider his appointment of Haspel as Deputy Director.[12] Senator Sheldon Whitehouse quoted colleagues Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich who were on the committee:
I am especially concerned by reports that this individual was involved in the unauthorized destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, which documented the CIA’s use of torture against two CIA detainees. My colleagues Senators Wyden and Heinrich have stated that classified information details why the newly appointed Deputy Director is ‘unsuitable’ for the position and have requested that this information be declassified. I join their request.
On February 15, 2017, Spencer Ackerman reported on psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, the architects of the enhanced interrogation program that was designed to break Zubaydah and was subsequently used on other detainees at the CIA’s secret prisons around the world. Jessen and Mitchell are being sued by Sulaiman Abdulla Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and Obaid Ullah over torture designed by the psychologists. Jessen and Mitchell are seeking to compel Haspel, and her colleague James Cotsana, to testify on their behalf.[13][14]
On March 13, 2018, President Donald J. Trump announced via Twitter that he will nominate Haspel to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, which would make her the first female CIA director.[15]
I have some doubts about her. Appointed by O and praised by Clapper. Maybe there aren’t any good options here. Pompeo was a big disappointment to me.
I wish we had a CIA that was loyal to the United States like the one Vince Flynn wrote about.
Soon to be reciprocal Terminate-with-Prejudice orders for those responsible for issuing the arrest warrant. You go Gina!
Liberals: Trump should hire more women.
Also liberals: We hate all of the women Trump hired.
#mefirst
Yea. Irene is a tough cookie.
They are. Kyle Mills
Awesome!
She will end up withdrawing from the nomination. All Dems and 5-6 Rino votes are already lined up in opposition due the the black site and torture narrative. Dems will destroy her.
On December 17, 2014, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights pressed criminal charges against unidentified CIA operatives, after the US Senate Select Committee published its report on torture by US intelligence agencies.
On June 7, 2017, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights called on the Public Prosecutor General of Germany to issue an arrest warrant against Haspel over claims she oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects. The complaint against her is centered on the case of Saudi national Abu Zubaydah
You have to be confirmed to be CIA Director. What if she was offered a deal because it sounds like she is dirty. She airs the CIA’s dirty laundry during confirmation and under OATH. American public exposed to the truth. Makes sense.
Just walked by the lobby of my office which always has CNN on.
They were too busy talking about Stormy Daniels to talk about Gina Haspel. Priorities.
Um, Kyle Mills has written the last few Mitch Rapp books.
The Survivor (2015)
Order to Kill (2016)
and
Enemy of the State (2017)
were all by Mills.
Amen Amen Amen! I saw the headline and the first thing I said to my dh was I hope she’s a strong tough woman, who won’t take any crap from terrorists.
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