{"id":293102,"date":"2017-02-03T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-cia-deputy-director-once-ran-black-site-prison\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:26:06","slug":"new-cia-deputy-director-once-ran-black-site-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-cia-deputy-director-once-ran-black-site-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"New CIA deputy director once ran \u2018black site\u2019 prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has named Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA clandestine service officer who once ran a \u201cblack site\u201d prison, deputy director of the spy agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haspel\u2019s selection on Thursday won applause inside the CIA and from many career intelligence officials as the first woman to reach the agency\u2019s second-highest position.<\/p>\n<p>However, Haspel was once in charge of a CIA prison in Thailand where two suspected al-Qaeda members were waterboarded.<\/p>\n<p>Her promotion came amid reports that Trump is preparing an executive order to reopen the overseas \u201cblack site\u201d prisons, where the CIA held terrorist suspects before former President Barack Obama closed them<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Anders, the deputy director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, said he was &#8220;gravely concerned&#8221; about CIA Director Mike Pompeo\u2019s decision to pick Haspel as his deputy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pompeo must explain to the American people how his promotion of someone allegedly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/03\/508938\/New-CIA-deputy-once-ran-black-site-prison-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has named Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA clandestine service officer who once ran a \u201cblack site\u201d prison, deputy director of the spy agency. Haspel\u2019s selection on Thursday won applause inside the CIA and from many career intelligence officials as the first woman to reach the agency\u2019s second-highest position. However, Haspel was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-293102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}