• Sen. Wyden: CIA engaging in "cover-up" of nominee Gina Haspel's background
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/17/sen-wyden-cia-engaging-coverup-director-nominee-gina-haspels-background/524556002/ Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee say they are increasingly "disturbed" by classified information they are reading about CIA director nominee Gina Haspel, and Sen. Ron Wyden charged Tuesday that the agency is engaged in a "cover-up" of her covert actions.Although the senators are barred by federal law from disclosing what they've read, it has been widely reported that Haspel was involved in the CIA's use of torture while interrogating suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush administration. She also reportedly carried out orders to destroy videotapes showing prisoners being waterboarded. Wyden said his concerns about Haspel, who has served as the agency's deputy director since early last year, "are significantly broader than what has been alleged in the press." "They're (the CIA) doing everything they can to keep the facts from getting out," Wyden, D-Ore., said in an interview. "I believe there is a cover-up of her background." CIA spokesman Ryan Trapani said Tuesday that the agency is working to release as many details of Haspel's long — and by nature secretive — career as possible without jeopardizing national security. "Deputy Director Haspel has a storied career at CIA and a record of tremendous service to this country," Trapani said in a statement. "Prior to last year, Deputy Director Haspel’s entire career at CIA was classified, including the fact she worked at CIA. CIA has made publicly available many details and will continue to see what additional information can be made available consistent with national security requirements." Trapani said the agency will share her classified record with all senators and not just with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which normally gets an exclusive look at secret documents. The committee will conduct a confirmation hearing with Haspel as early as next week, and will then vote on whether to recommend her approval by the full Senate. Wyden, along with Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., wrote a letter to current CIA Director Mike Pompeo this week asking him to declassify information about Haspel's 33-year career at the CIA so that the public and the full Senate can read what she has done. "The more we review the classified facts, the more disturbed we are, both by the actions she (Haspel) has taken during her career and by the CIA’s failure to allow the public the opportunity to consider them," the senators wrote in their fifth letter to Pompeo.
Something even worse than personally torturing prisoners and destroying the evidence? Shit she has some real bad skeletons then.
She's almost exactly like the main villan from the first season of the Punisher to a T. That is done pretty messed up shit right there.
do we get the gauging out eyes part?
Bro I was thinking the same goddamn thing
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