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Gina Haspel, Donald Trump’s nominee for head of the CIA, promised in her confirmation hearing on Wednesday that she would not allow the agency to torture people on her watch. Her role in waterboarding terror suspects as a CIA agent has been a sticking point in the nomination process—she even suggested to the White House on Friday that she withdraw herself from consideration to avoid an embarrassing hearing on the subject in the Senate. One woman, who was kidnapped and tortured by CIA operatives while pregnant in Thailand in 2004, published a piece in the New York Times on Tuesday asking whether Haspel, who ran a “black site” in Thailand around that time, approved it. Haspel also advocated for the destruction of evidence of CIA torture.

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