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Gina Haspel Sworn In As Cia's First Female Director by Quickjobs(m): 5:40pm On May 21, 2018
Gina Haspel, 61, is being sworn in as the CIA's first female director.

The ceremony took place on Monday morning, May 21, at agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, with President Donald Trump in attendance.

Gina Haspel will be the first female director in the 71-year history of the agency. The 61-year-old, who has been a CIA employee for 33 years, won Senate confirmation last week after overcoming concerns about her role in the agency's use of harsh interrogation techniques after 9/11.

Her nomination was controversial due to her history at the CIA, including her oversight of a secret "black site" in Thailand in 2002 where suspected terrorists were tortured, and she wrote a 2005 order, at her supervisor's request, to destroy 92 videotapes that showed CIA agents waterboarding prisoners.

Haspel was backed by many in the CIA rank and file and senior intelligence officials, including former CIA directors and national intelligence directors. Opponents argued it was wrong to reward someone who supervised a covert detention site in Thailand where terror suspects were harshly interrogated.

But Haspel promised senators at her confirmation hearing that she would not restart the torture program if confirmed as CIA director, even if pressed to do so by President Trump. Trump has said in the past that "torture works" and that he would consider using it again.

Haspel will replace Mike Pompeo, who left the CIA late last month to become Trump's new secretary of State.

Source: http://kikiotolu.com/gina-haspel-sworn-in-as-cias-first-female-director/

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Re: Gina Haspel Sworn In As Cia's First Female Director by obonujoker(m): 6:25pm On May 21, 2018
Buh lucasbalo said Trump is a hater of women...
Re: Gina Haspel Sworn In As Cia's First Female Director by tolexy007(m): 6:28pm On May 21, 2018
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Re: Gina Haspel Sworn In As Cia's First Female Director by Lucasbalo(m): 6:39pm On May 21, 2018
obonujoker:
Buh lucasbalo said Trump is a hater of women...
Yes I said it because of the garbage he was spewing out about women call them ugly, fat and don't forget grabbing them by their pus*ies. For him appointing few ladies to his cabinet doesn't negate his attitude towards women.

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Re: Gina Haspel Sworn In As Cia's First Female Director by IJOBA2: 11:01am On May 22, 2018
Lucasbalo:
Yes I said it because of the garbage he was spewing out about women call them ugly, fat and don't forget grabbing them by their pus*ies. For him appointing few ladies to his cabinet doesn't negate his attitude towards women.
YOU MEAN YOUR PRESIDENT SAID ALL THESE

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