Gina Haspel, CIA Deputy Director
The other uninspiring appointee that unfortunately made it through the vetting process is Gina Haspel, who was named as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on February 2nd. She was reportedly involved in the rendition and torture programs ca. 2003-4 and actually was senior officer in charge of one of the overseas prisons located in Thailand, which was the epicenter of the “enhanced interrogation” program and the site where al-Qaeda prisoner Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times, “tortured so brutally that at one point he appeared to be dead.” In 2005 she also ordered the destruction of the video tapes made of the interrogations to avoid providing evidence to any congressional inquiry into what had gone on. (Philip Garibaldi http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/?p=4337#.Wqfwah0bMdU)
…..Wikipedia on the monster Haspel, who like baggy-yed “Mad Dog” Mattis has “never been married”……
Gina Haspel
| Gina Haspel | |
|---|---|
| Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Nominee |
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| Taking office TBD* |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Succeeding | Mike Pompeo |
| 6th Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | |
| Assumed office February 7, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | David Cohen |
| Director of the National Clandestine Service Acting |
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| In office February 28, 2013 – May 7, 2013 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John Bennett |
| Succeeded by | Frank Archibald |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gina Cheri Haspel October 1, 1956 |
Gina Cheri Haspel (born October 1, 1956) is an American intelligence officer, serving as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump in February 2017.[1][2][3] On March 13, 2018, Haspel was nominated by President Trump to become the Director of the CIA, succeeding Mike Pompeo. If confirmed, she will be the first woman to hold the position.[4]
Service with CIA[edit]
Haspel joined the CIA in 1985 and has held several top positions in the agency including deputy director of the National Clandestine Service.[5] Haspel ran a “black site” CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002.[6][7] The site was codenamed “Cat’s Eye” and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no-longer-authorized methods.[5][8]Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a “large box”, had his head slammed against a wall, and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence (Interrogation of Abu Zubaydah).[9]
Haspel later was the chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez, who headed the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had “drafted a cable” in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand.[8]
In 2013, John Brennan, then the director of Central Intelligence, named Haspel as acting Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service, which carries out covert operations around the globe.[10] However, she was denied the position permanently due to criticism about her involvement in the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program.[11] Haspel has also served as the Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Foreign Intelligence and Covert Action.[6]
Haspel is the recipient of the George H. W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism, the Donovan Award, the Intelligence Medal of Merit and the Presidential Rank Award.[1]
On February 2, 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Haspel deputy director of the CIA. On February 8, 2017, several members of the Senate intelligence committee urged Trump to reconsider his appointment of Haspel as Deputy Director.[12] Senator Sheldon Whitehousequoted colleagues Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich who were on the committee:
I am especially concerned by reports that this individual was involved in the unauthorized destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, which documented the CIA’s use of torture against two CIA detainees. My colleagues Senators Wyden and Heinrich have stated that classified information details why the newly appointed Deputy Director is ‘unsuitable’ for the position and have requested that this information be declassified. I join their request.
On February 15, 2017, Spencer Ackerman reported on psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, the architects of the enhanced interrogation program that was designed to break Zubaydah and was subsequently used on other detainees at the CIA’s secret prisons around the world. Jessen and Mitchell are being sued by Sulaiman Abdulla Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and Obaid Ullah over torture designed by the psychologists. Jessen and Mitchell are seeking to compel Haspel, and her colleague James Cotsana, to testify on their behalf.[13][14]
On March 13, 2018, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he will nominate Haspel to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, which would make her the first female permanent CIA director.[15]
Controversies[edit]
On December 17, 2014, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights pressed criminal charges against unidentified CIA operatives, after the US Senate Select Committee published its report on torture by US intelligence agencies.
On June 7, 2017, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights called on the Public Prosecutor General of Germany to issue an arrest warrant against Haspel over claims she oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects. The complaint against her is centered on the case of Saudi national Abu Zubaydah.[16][17][18]
Honors, awards, distinctions[edit]
Haspel has received a number of awards, including:
- George H. W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism
- Donovan Award
- Intelligence Medal of Merit, and
- Presidential Rank Award, highest award in the federal civil service.
Haspel was the first female career CIA officer to be named Deputy Director of the agency.[19] Haspel was named as the CIA director, if confirmed, she will be the first female director of the CIA.
References[edit]
- ^ Jump up to:a b “Gina Haspel Selected to be Deputy Director of CIA”. Central Intelligence Agency. February 2, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-02-03. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
Ms. Haspel is the first female career CIA officer to be named Deputy Director.
- Jump up^ Glenn Greenwald (February 2, 2017). “The CIA’s New Deputy Director Ran a Black Site for Torture”. The Intercept. Retrieved February 3,2017.
That CIA official’s name whose torture activities the Post described is Gina Haspel. Today, as BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold noted, CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced that Haspel was selected by Trump to be Deputy Director of the CIA.
- Jump up^ “Gina Haspel becomes first female CIA deputy director”. WDSU. February 2, 2017. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
- Jump up^ “Who Is Gina Haspel, President Trump’s Pick for CIA Director?”. TIME. March 13, 2018.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Toosi, Nahal (February 2, 2017). “Trump taps former ‘black site’ prison operator for CIA deputy”. Politico.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Riechmann, Deb (February 2, 2017). “Seasoned spymaster linked to waterboarding named CIA deputy”. San Francisco Chronicle. AP.
- Jump up^ Bonner, Raymond (February 22, 2017). “CIA Cables Detail Its New Deputy Director’s Role in Torture”. ProPublica.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Miller, Greg (February 2, 2017). “CIA officer with ties to ‘black sites’ named deputy director”. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 3,2017.
- Jump up^ Sleight, David (February 22, 2017). “In Their Own Words: CIA Cables Document Agency’s Torture of Abu Zubaydah”. ProPublica.
- Jump up^ Filkins, Dexter (February 3, 2017). “The New CIA Deputy Chief’s Black-Site Past”. The New Yorker.
- Jump up^ Miller, Greg (May 7, 2013). “National Security CIA selects new head of clandestine service, passing over female officer”. Washington Post.
- Jump up^ Katie Bo Williams (February 8, 2017). “Third Dem urges removal of Trump’s pick for top CIA deputy”. The Hill. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
Trump’s pick of 30-year veteran Gina Haspel to serve as deputy director of the CIA — which is not a Senate-confirmable position — has reinvigorated fears that the administration is weighing a return to the use of banned techniques now considered torture, such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation.
[dead link] - Jump up^ Spencer Ackerman (February 15, 2017). “Deputy CIA director could face court deposition over post-9/11 role in torture”. The Guardian. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
In a court filing on Tuesday, attorneys for two CIA contract psychologists who helped design the agency’s brutal interrogations for terrorism suspects have asked a federal judge to order Gina Haspel, a career CIA officer recently appointed as the agency’s No2 official, to provide a deposition discussing her allegedly pivotal involvement in an episode the CIA has tried repeatedly to put behind it.
- Jump up^ Spencer Ackerman (February 22, 2017). “DoJ moves to prevent CIA official from detailing role in Bush-era torture”. New York City: The Guardian (UK). Retrieved March 27, 2017.
The government asked the court to permit it to formally submit on 8 March its state-secrets argument preventing them and another CIA witness, James Cotsana, from being deposed. It is believed to be the first assertion of the state secrets privilege under the Trump administration.
- Jump up^ Press, Associated (March 13, 2018). “Gina Haspel named by Trump to be CIA director, replacing Pompeo, who will replace Tillerson at State”. Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
- Jump up^ Ben Knight: NGO seeks arrest warrant for Donald Trump′s deputy CIA director, Deutsche Welle, June 7, 2017
- Jump up^ US News/ AP: Rights Group Asks Germany to Arrest CIA Deputy Director, 7. June 2017
- Jump up^ Christian Fuchs: CIA: Trump’s Darling, Die Zeit, 7. June 2017 (in English)
- Jump up^ “Gina Haspel — Central Intelligence Agency”. www.cia.gov. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
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….More on the torture of Zubaydah
“He spent a total of 266 hours (11 days, 2 hours) in the large (coffin size) confinement box and 29 hours in a small confinement box, which had a width of 21 inches, a depth of 2.5 feet, and a height of 2.5 feet,” according to the Senate torture report. “The CIA interrogators told Abu Zubaydah that the only way he would leave the facility was in the coffin-shaped confinement box.” (https://theintercept.com/2016/08/23/fourteen-years-after-first-cia-torture-session-a-rare-glimpse-of-abu-zubaydah/)
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Haspel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gina Haspel (born 1956), American intelligence officer
Judith Haspel (1918–2004), Austrian-born ISRAELI swimmer
Source : Wikipedia, Haspel
The name Haspel also occurs on the list of Jewish surnames AVOTAYNU (www.avotaynu.com)from various sources.
The woman also looks Jewish.
Trump’s regime is characterized by the erratic appointing, firing and appointing anew of people, all of whom have the wrong background.