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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) by c0lo on Saturday May 19 2018, @10:08PM (1 child)
I'm not snoring. It must have been the other, on the side, the head of whom landed on my shoulder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @09:25PM
You guys have it easy. What happens to me is I get called on to provide my opinion. It can be very hard to come out of such situations alive... or gainfully employed.
When everyone knows that everyone is bored, but you're drooling AND caught not paying attention... your co-workers won't let you get away with it unchallenged!