{"id":360138,"date":"2018-05-07T19:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cia-nominee-gina-haspel-may-testify-for-first-time-in-public-about-her-role-in-torture-at-black-site\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T19:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:15:58","slug":"cia-nominee-gina-haspel-may-testify-for-first-time-in-public-about-her-role-in-torture-at-black-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cia-nominee-gina-haspel-may-testify-for-first-time-in-public-about-her-role-in-torture-at-black-site\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Nominee Gina Haspel May Testify for First Time in Public About Her Role in Torture at Black Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"display: block; max-width: 640px; width: 100%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/images\/images_2018_05\/2018_0507gina.jpg\" alt=\"Nominee for CIA director Gina Haspel attends the ceremonial swearing-in of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department on May 2, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo: Mandel Ngan \/ AFP \/ Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: auto;\"\/><span style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 3px; display: block;\">Nominee for CIA director Gina Haspel attends the ceremonial swearing-in of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department on May 2, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo: Mandel Ngan \/ AFP \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s push to install the CIA&#8217;s controversial deputy director, Gina Haspel, as the agency&#8217;s new director faces mounting scrutiny as Haspel is set to begin a Senate confirmation hearing this Wednesday. The Washington Post reports the hearing almost didn&#8217;t happen, after Haspel attempted to withdraw her name from consideration over opposition to her role in the CIA&#8217;s torture program under George W. Bush. Wednesday&#8217;s hearing will mark the first time Haspel has been forced to speak publicly about her role in the US torture program and the destruction of\u00a0CIA tapes documenting the torture. Haspel&#8217;s nomination as\u00a0CIA\u00a0director has been &#8220;sold like a box of cereal&#8221; by the agency, says John Prados, senior fellow at the National Security Archive, but with no transparency about her record. As of now, says Prados, there&#8217;s no public document listing Haspel&#8217;s duties in her more than 30 years at the\u00a0CIA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2018\/5\/7\/cia_torturer_gina_haspel_may_testify\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Please check back later for full transcript.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/44397-cia-nominee-gina-haspel-may-testify-for-first-time-in-public-about-her-role-in-torture-at-black-site\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominee for CIA director Gina Haspel attends the ceremonial swearing-in of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department on May 2, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Photo: Mandel Ngan \/ AFP \/ Getty Images) The Trump administration&#8217;s push to install the CIA&#8217;s controversial deputy director, Gina Haspel, as the agency&#8217;s new director faces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360138","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=360138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}