CIA Director Nominee to Explain Role in Torture Program, Coats Says
President Donald Trump's nominee to be CIA director will fully explain what her role was in the agency's use of harsh interrogation practices on terror suspects after 9/11, the top U.S. intelligence chief said Wednesday.
Gina Haspel
Source: CIA
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Washington (AP) -- President Donald Trump's nominee to be CIA director will fully explain what her role was — and what it wasn't — in the agency's use of harsh interrogation practices on terror suspects after 9/11, the top U.S. intelligence chief said Wednesday.
Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel will face tough questions about her activities with the interrogation program, which critics call one of the darkest chapters in the agency's history.