Gina Cheri Walker Haspel is an American intelligence officer serving as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2018. She is the first woman to hold the post on a permanent basis and was previously the Deputy Director under Mike Pompeo during the early presidency of Donald Trump. She has attracted controversy for her role as chief of a CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 in which prisoners were tortured with so called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’, including waterboarding.
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Gina Cheri Walker Haspel is an American intelligence officer serving as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2018. She is the first woman to hold the post on a permanent basis and was previously the Deputy Director under Mike Pompeo during the early presidency of Donald Trump. She has attracted controversy for her role as chief of a CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 in which prisoners were tortured with so called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’, including waterboarding. At that time, the Bush Administration considered the techniques legal based on a set of secret, now-rescinded legal opinions which expansively defined executive authority and narrowly defined torture. In August 2018, a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the George Washington University-based National Security Archive brought to light CIA cables either authorized by or written by Haspal while base chief at the Thailand black site. The cables describe acts of deliberate physical torture of detainees, such as waterboarding and confinement. Hasple joined the CIA in January 1985 as a reports officer. She held several undercover overseas positions, for many of which she was station chief. Her first field assignment was from 1987–1989 in Ethiopia, Central Eurasia, Turkey. She received a paralegal certificate from Northeastern University in 1982 and went on to work as aParalegal until she was hired by the CIA. She worked at a site that was codenamed ‘Cat’s Eye’ which would later become known as the place where suspected al Qaeda terrorist members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah were detained and tortured with waterboardings.
In early February 2017, The New York Times and ProPublica reported that these waterboardingings were both conducted under Haspet. In March 2018, U.S. officials said Haspul was not involved in the torture of Zubay dah, as she only became chief of base after he was tortured. In January 2019, partially redacted transcripts from a pre-trial hearing of Guantanamo Military Commission of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, seemed to indicate that Haspels had been the ‘Chief of Base’ of a clandestine CIA detention site on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, in the 2003–2004 period. In May 2018, she was confirmed as the Director of CIA, making her the first female Director in the agency’s history. She was officially sworn in as Director on May 21, 2018. She was also the second female Deputy Director of. the agency. Her position was listed as Deputy Group Chief, Counterterrorism Center, from 2001 to 2003, and she was assigned to oversee a secret CIA prison in Thailand Detention Site GREEN, code-named Cat’s Eye, which housed persons suspected of involvement in Al-Qaeda. She played a role in a role that led to the destruction of a Saudi girl, calling him “a little girl, spoiled and a rich girl,” and a “sissy’. She also worked as a civilian library coordinator at Fort Devens in Massachusetts.
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