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Veteran spy Gina Haspel will become the first female director of the CIA after six Democrats joined Republicans in a Senate confirmation vote that overrode concerns about her role in the spy agency's harsh interrogation program after 9/11.
Thursday's 54-45 vote split both parties, and the margin was the closest for a CIA nominee in the nearly seven decades that a nod from the Senate has been required. Haspel, who has spent nearly all of her 33-year CIA career in undercover positions, is the first career operations officer to be confirmed since William Colby in 1973.
Haspel, 61, is a native of Kentucky but grew up around the world as the daughter of an Air Force serviceman. She worked in Africa, Europe and classified locations around the globe and was tapped as deputy director of the CIA last year.
Source: Fox News
Also at the New York Times, CNN[warning: autoplay video], and Vox among others.
(Score: 2, Troll) by bradley13 on Sunday May 20 2018, @10:48AM (1 child)
"she was just following lawful orders"
WTF? You think the people running concentration camps weren't? The hypocrisy of the Numerberg trials is precisely the fact that the prosecuted people really were following orders that were legal and binding in the context they were issued. But winners get to retroactively change the rules, so that they can impose revenge (as opposed to justice) on the losing side.
In the case of the US and torture, the orders actually were illegal. That's probably at least part of the reason they sent many prisoners to other countries for torture - in an attempt to hide what was going on. Which doesn't make it any more legal, since those prisoners were under the jurisdiction of the US> People all the way up the chain, up to and including the President, were aware of the activities - and should be in jail.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:43PM
I wonder if some modder mis-characterized your post.