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February 3, 2017

Trump's Pick for Deputy CIA Director Ran Secret Torture Black Site
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President Trump has selected Gina Haspel to be the new deputy director
of the CIA. The Intercept reports Gina Haspel was directly involved in
the CIA's torture program under the George W. Bush administration. She
was responsible for running a secret CIA black site in Thailand where
prisoners were waterboarded and tortured. The Intercept also reports
Haspel played a role in the 2005 destruction of two interrogation
videotapes that depicted the torture of prisoners.


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