“Over the course of your career with the intelligence community, you have served in positions of responsibility that have intersected with the CIA’s program of so-called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques. These techniques included the practice of waterboarding, forced nudity and humiliation, facial and abdominal slapping, dietary manipulation, stress positions, cramped confinement, striking, and more than 48 hours of sleep deprivation. We now know that these techniques not only failed to deliver actionable intelligence, but actually produced false and misleading information. Most importantly, the use of torture compromised our values, stained our national honor, and threatened our historical reputation.”
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee
Washington, D.C. March 23 2018 – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and President Trump’s nominee to be CIA Director, Gina Haspel, asking her to explain her involvement in the CIA’s so-called “enhanced interrogation” program during the course of her career with the intelligence community. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
