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>> can't wait. >> last week's confirmation hearing a big fight came over her role in 2005 and the destruction of interrogation tapes, something she said she was ordered to do and something ordered by her superiors but acknowledged being an advocate for that. a special prosecutor investigated this and did not come forward with charges but detailed what happened including her role. that has only been available for members of the senate intelligence committee in a classified setting tlmpt was a push by democrats as well as jeff flake to allow full senate access to that report. i'm told it paints ...

Involvement in the destruction of interrogation tapes. do you have any objection this morning to the public release of the durham investigation which would give the american people more information on the same topic and which does not come from the cia? >> senator, just to be clear, the request for the declassification of the morel memo was in response to a member on this committee. i've not read the durham report, and i don't know the classification. so let me take that for the record, if i may. >> but do you have any objection? >> well, i haven't seen it, so i haven't read it. so i don't kno...

Behavior and givious a quote, get out of jail free card, that are in consistent with american values, would you say yes and follow the orders? would you keep congress in the dark? miss haspel, i encourage you to take these issues seriously and to address them at length. my vote on your confirmation will be greatly influenced by how you address these questions today. i know the committee, and i am particular. i want to hear about also your interaction with respect to the 2005 decision to destroy the cia interrogation tapes. what role did you play? and if given the chance, would you do it again?...

Were immoral, and she would not get pinned down on that, just saying she would follow the law. there's a big focus also on the 2005 controversy that occurred when there was a destruction by the cia of interrogation tapes at that time, that prompted a special prosecute tore investigate the matter. she said she was not the one who ordered this. her superior sent a cable that she wrote to field officers to carry out the destruction of the tape without getting the signoff from the cia director at the time, essentially washing her hands of it saying it was a superior's decision. wolf, there is a cl...

Orders, will you keep congress in the dark? miss haspel, i encourage you to take these issues seriously and to address them at length. my vote on your confirmation will be greatly influenced by how you address these questions today. i know the committee. and i in particular want to hear about your interaction with respect to the 2005 decision to destroy the c.i.a. interrogation tapes. what role did you play? if given the chance, would you do it again? in the same vein i would like to know your views from that time on about informing congressional leadership. given the necessary secrecy of the ...