The Conservative Case Against Gina Haspel
The man who did 30 months in prison for exposing waterboarding program speaks out on Trump’s CIA pick.
By John Kiriakou • May 8, 2018
Credit: CIA
Editor’s note: The author is a former CIA agent who was the first to confirm the agency’s secret waterboarding program and publicly describe it as “torture.” The government responded by charging him with leaking classified information to a reporter after which he was convicted and spent 30 months in a high-security federal prison from 2013 to 2015.
The White House is insisting that Gina Haspel move forward in nomination as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, despite her own concerns that the Senate hearings—expected to begin Wednesday—could turn brutal over her history in the CIA’s torture program. The Trump administration would be smart to heed her concerns.
read more at http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-conservative-case-against-gina-haspel/
Additional links and articles on topic:
read more at https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/05/24/for-us-congress-running-torture-prison-good-career-move.html
read more at http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/confronting-america-the-torturer/
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