MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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McCain asks CIA director nominee Haspel to explain role in post-9/11 interrogations
By artappraiser on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 4:43pm |By Karoun Demirjian@ WashingtonPost.com, March 23
[....] In a letter to Haspel on Friday, McCain (R-Ariz.) asked for “a detailed account” of her role overseeing the CIA’s interrogation programs between 2001 and 2009, in the United States and abroad. He also asked her to list the steps she did not take to prevent the CIA from using such measures — and for the names of those who asked her to destroy evidence related to the sessions.
McCain also asked Haspel to commit to declassifying a report on torture that the Senate Intelligence Committee completed in 2014. That report was written by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who last week called on the CIA to declassify documents related to Haspel’s ties to the enhanced interrogation techniques program [....]
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mccain-asks-cia-director-nominee-haspel-to-explain-her-record-tied-to-torture/2018/03/23/227e76a6-2ea2-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html
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