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McCain presses Trump CIA nominee over her record on interrogations
Source: Reuters
POLITICS MARCH 23, 2018 / 11:56 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
McCain presses Trump CIA nominee over her record on interrogations
Patricia Zengerle
3 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain on Friday pressed President Donald Trump’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, for information about her ties to the agency’s past use of harsh interrogation techniques, underscoring challenges she faces winning confirmation.
Trump nominated Haspel, currently Central Intelligence Agency deputy director, to become director last week.
The announcement prompted objections over connections Haspel, who oversaw a “black site” prison in Thailand, may have had to the use of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques widely seen as torture for years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
McCain was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The Republican lawmaker is a strong opponent of the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
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McCain presses Trump CIA nominee over her record on interrogations
Patricia Zengerle
3 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain on Friday pressed President Donald Trump’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, for information about her ties to the agency’s past use of harsh interrogation techniques, underscoring challenges she faces winning confirmation.
Trump nominated Haspel, currently Central Intelligence Agency deputy director, to become director last week.
The announcement prompted objections over connections Haspel, who oversaw a “black site” prison in Thailand, may have had to the use of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques widely seen as torture for years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
McCain was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The Republican lawmaker is a strong opponent of the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-haspel/mccain-presses-trump-cia-nominee-over-her-record-on-interrogations-idUSKBN1GZ2FW