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Interrogations in thailand, called haspel the cheerleader for waterboarding, but this week, that very contractor said haspels critics have this story all wrong. >> is someone misinformed senator paul. he is referring to a section for my book where the chief of base was confronting abu zubaydah because he was feigning confusion, faking confusion. that chief of base was not gina. that is the way they are going to attack her. theyre going to take things out of context and destroyed them. >> it desp...

Evil radical islamic terrorists that think theyre doing gods will by killing innocent people, but they killed 3,000 americans. to me, shes a hero. >> thats why i wrote the book because we are at war with evil. the left wants to attack a female appointee of a republican president. they couldnt care less about whether we torture people or not, these are all politicians -- they were briefed behind closed doors, they have no issues with interrogation techniques, but all they do. lets go back in time...

Foreign minister is on her way or will be tomorrow on her way to washington. she was supposed to meet with mr. tillerson. shell now meet with the deputy secretary of state john sullivan, saying it is important at this time when you have two massive summits coming up, the north-korean summit, u.s.-north korean summit, to keep meeting despite personnel changes. dave? >> a massive agenda for mike pompeo. gina haspel stands to take over the agency. shes a 30-year agency vet and would be the first ...

Shell meet with a deputy secretary of state, john sullivan. the foreign ministry saying its too important that this dialogue continues despite personnel changes. >> paula hancocks, thank you. cia deputy director gina haspel stands to take over the agency. she is a 30-year agency vet and will be the first woman ever to lead the cia. key republican senators want answers about her role in a cias interrogation and detention program. haspel ran a cia black site prison in thailand in 2002 and later ...

Thats an interesting question. >> dana: thats a bad hypothetical. she didnt break any laws. >> kimberly: disqualified herself because -- >> dana: obviously this is not an easy topic. the things these agencies are asked to do is not easy. do you think they want to do this? the notion that somehow gitmo or these black tights fueled more anger against western civilization is preposterous. >> jesse: after these enhanced interrogations were no longer used, the rise of isis sprung up right after. >> d...

Hey, i just want to give you a thanks to my friend ken dilanian. i was just talking to mark fallon about torture. i was talking about the most brutal interrogations of any detainee. i want to clarify that gina haspel was not according to our reporting present at those interrogations. this is information we have from current and former u.s. officials who say she arrived at the base where those interrogations took place after those interrogations had occurred. so, while she is accused of doing a w...

Interrogation program. criticism. the cia may be forced it finally publicly answer whether she was directly involved in interrogations, was she present at them or did she just oversee them and know about them as many senior cia officers did. i think her confirmation hearings are going to be exceptionally interesting. all of these issues have not played out in public for many years. and some of them still remain some of the cias most tightly held secrets. her confirmation hearing will put her in ...

Consistent with what cia legal authorities were. dont forget the intense interrogation program was authorized by the united states and deemed lawful by the department of justice. >> g.o.p. senator and chair richard burr has given haspel his support and senator john mccain who was tortured in vietnam says her confirmation should include a pledge to block any plan to reintroduce harsh interrogations. martha? >> martha: trace, thank you very much. my next guest sits on the house intelligence commit...

But knows the clear parameters. and just how far intelligence officers, intelligence analysts and intelligence operatives should go when it comes to informing policy. >> but, ned, haspel has been linked to the cia destruction of interrogation tapes that documented harsh interrogations of at least two al qaeda suspects in cia detention, the destruction ordered by the head of the clandestine service. haspel, his chief of staff at the time. is this something that could perhaps pose a problem for he...

State, the president has nominated gina haspel, the current deputy director to lead the cia. haspel would be the first woman to hold that position, but shell have to be confirmed, first. and that could move problematic. back in february when she was picked as deputy, "the new york times" profiled what they called the career spys leading role in torture. they reported that haspel, quote, oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects and later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documentin...