“We did call her Bloody Gina. Gina was always very quick and very willing to use force. (…) Was it moral, and was it ethical, and was it legal? I think the answers to those questions are very clearly no. But Gina and people like Gina did it, I think, because they enjoyed doing it. They tortured just for the sake of torture, not for the sake of gathering information.”
Former CIA John Kiriakou
“There is no question that during her career, Haspel participated in and helped develop the program that our own government has labeled torture. Though there have been the typical suggestions that she was ‘simply following orders,’ Glenn Carle, a former CIA interrogator, has described her as one of the architects, designers, implementers and one of the top two managers of the [Enhanced Interrogation Techniques program] and a true believer, by all accounts, in the Global War in Terror paradigm. This does not sound like someone who was simply ‘following orders.’ This sounds like someone who was giving them, which I would argue is far worse. (…) I simply do not believe she should hold the post to which she has been nominated.”
US Senator Rand Paul
Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou personally knew CIA director nominee Gina Haspel when he worked at the CIA. But their careers have taken very different paths over the past decade. Haspel, who was directly involved in torture at a secret CIA prison in Thailand, has been promoted to head the agency. Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the torture program, ended up being jailed for 23 months. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
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