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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @11:47AM (4 children)
Still nobody making a peep about how bush, cheney, rumsfeld, rice, obama, clinton, etc... all walk free. Clinton even ran for president after personally approving extrajudicial killings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:11PM
Many people have complained but without popular support it goes nowhere. Unless there is context wI wouldnt spam it like the contracts or other spammers round here.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:28PM (2 children)
I'm with you on this. Were it up to me, every president we've had since and including Nixon, with the possible exception of Carter, would be hanged at the ICC, and that includes the Cheneys, Rumsfelds, etc you mention. Bolton too while we're at it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:49PM (1 child)
"hanged" ==> "charged with war crimes"
Don't drop your better nature just because others are a waste of good carbon and water.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 20 2018, @08:27PM
Isn't hanging what we did at Nuremberg to war criminals? Sauce for the goose etc...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...