sta state department, his deputy at the cia, gina haspel, is who the president is calling on to run the agency. she will be the first woman in that role assuming she is confirmed. but haspel is a highly controversial figure. let me tell you a little bit about her. she has spent about 30 years as an officer with the cia. haspel was made deputy director of the agency last february. now, she spent much of her time undercover, but later in her career, haspel was heavily involved in the cia s controversial torture program. you ll hear it referred to as enhanced interrogation. in 2002, she ran a secret cia prison for suspected terrorists in thailand that used harsh interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and even squeezing detainees into coffin-sized boxes. haspel oversaw the interrogation of detainees, one of whom was tortured so badly that at one point he appeared to be dead. he was waterboarded 83 times in a single month. now, in 2005, nbc news confirms that h
administration. president trump has nominated gina haspel. if confirmed she d be the first woman ever con dpifirmed the le the agency. she spent 30 years as an officer with the cia. she serves as deputy director. she was selected for the job last february. she has spent much of her time undercover. later in her career she was involved in the cia controversial torture program. in 2002 she ran a secret cia prison for suspected terrorists in thailand that used harsh tactics the the time says she oversaw the brutal questioning of two detainees. one was tortured so badly at one point he appeared to be dead. he was water boarded 83 times in a single month. in 2005 she took part in an order to destroy video tapes
clandestine service and just associated with the torture program. she was running it. she was one of the architects of the torture program. and i have to say this, from my own experience, debriefing detainees in iraq, the torture program was not only, i think, useless, but it was counterproductive. and actually created more enemies for us to have to go after. she hasn t sat for a confirmation, so we haven t gotten her updated opinions on any of these things, but she does have the past that you are referring to. and donald trump said say on the campaign trail that he thought waterboarding should come back. he would bring it back and he would want to do worse. because what isis is doing isn t fair and we shouldn t be playing by any sort of rules. we shouldn t be constrained. he got large cheers for this. do you think this is an indication that maybe we re going back in that direction of enhanced interrogation, of waterboarding, of torturing our detainees? i certainly would hope not.
her appointment kind of troubles me. and it shows that the trump administration apparently is most interested in the cia in terms of operations. this appointment and a few others that trump has made during his presidency has always favored the operational side. and so therefore, i take that as being that the trump administration is not really interested in the information that they can get from the cia analysts, but they want to use the agency as a weapon against their adversaries. i m going to push back a little bit, just for a second. james clapper, the former director of the of national intelligence, said he was, quote, very pleased. and mike morrell, former deputy director of the fbi, said, i applaud the appointment. these are officials who served under the obama administration. so why does she enjoy such broad support among the intelligence community if you think she s such a bad choice? she has had a very long career and done many things, but she s also been involved in two
we need accountabilityaccountab. without accountability, we re going to have more problems, because people will do whatever they do and they feel they can get away with it. hold that thought on accountability. i want you to stay right there. the cia s torture program was a product of the post-9/11 battle against al qaeda. now, fears of the rise of isis have eclipsed al qaeda in recent years, but there are signs that al qaeda and its threat are still very real in 2018. more than 16 years after the events of 9/11. now, to understand what happened on that day, 9/11, you actually have to go back a long time before that. you have to go back to 1993 and the bombing at the world trade center. and five years after that in 1998, the group bombed u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania cull kyling more than 200 and injuring thousands more. and then there was the attack on the uss cole that killed e american soldiers. the story to have the run-up to