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Her qualifications are applauded by republicans and democrats, former cia directors who are opposed to president trump, her qualifications are not the issue per se. the issue at hand for gina haspel is her role during the george w. bush administration. in what was then an acceptable interrogation program, and enhanced interrogation, many people obviously referring to it as the torture program. it was accepted during those years. she ran a black site in thailand where some of the practices were undertaken. so very controversial in the past. and the question is, is it going to be good enough to say it was acceptable then, but not now? because, of course that program long gone. since the obama administration. that s the question that gina haspel is going to have to answer. would she reject torture in the future, even if president trump ordered it, even if there was a suggestion of changing the law. ....
Card. there are lot of capable women of both party who are capable stepping into that role and being very effective. they will be doing it without this enormous weight of having been involved in the torture program. haspel a gifted operator who was responsible for the capture of two terrorists behind the 1998 al qaeda bombing. cia dropped off classified bombings to senators. haspel will be back on capitol hill tomorrow for a second day of meetings. despite the controversy, she has a lot of support from past directors and past intel officials. vice president pence is announce sanctions on a former initial of venezuelan intelligence service. two aids and 20 companies for narcotics trafficking. it moved public today at the ....
Administration, he was considered at the time considered to be too radioactive because he had been in the cia leadership at the time of this torture program, hadn t been part of it, told people he opposed it. the idea that gina haspel wouldn t be aware that this hearing was going to be as rough as it looks like it will be a is little startling, somebody supposed to be in the intelligence world, how would you not expect this would be the subject of her confirmation. makes you wonder what there might be out there that we don t know that may have come to light in the last few days that shaped her last-minute decision to rethink this. but you had to know from the minute she was nominated this was going to be a tough, tough road to get to this nomination. but carol, for democrats, this has to be a balancing act. you have two choices. one, you can tear down somebody because of her association with george w. bush cia or you can ....
Haspel to head the cia and one of the err of the reporters who broke the story is on the phone now, why did ha, did haspel decide to withdraw her nomination? a lot of the critics of the torture program, that she was obviously a part of and interrogation and had been an enthusiastic supporter of, at least according to a document we reported on today. white house officials have been bracing for a pretty brutal confirmation, i indicated on friday she was over at the white house, meeting with officials about her nomination, and decided it would behoove her to withdrawal. that sparked kind of a frenzied chain of events where senior white house officials including sarah sanders, the legislative ....
Some questions that had come up. and let s be clear about this. some of these questions could have been new to the white house but not new to the cia. but these questions were ones that she was being asked to give some full-throated answers to that had to do with her role in support of the cia s very controversial torture program after 9/11. and the result of that question and answer session at the white house was that she suggested that she withdraw her nomination. i also want to emphasize something, please, if i can, which is, she wasn t withdrawing because she was worried that there was some new horrible skeleton in her closet. she was worried that she was going to be somehow bruised in this nomination process. she didn t want that. and she expressed to the white house aides that she was not interested in hurting the agency that she had served for the last 33 years. ....