{"id":360615,"date":"2018-05-10T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/haspel-says-cia-wont-torture-again-as-ray-mcgovern-is-dragged-out-of-hearing-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:30:44","slug":"haspel-says-cia-wont-torture-again-as-ray-mcgovern-is-dragged-out-of-hearing-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/haspel-says-cia-wont-torture-again-as-ray-mcgovern-is-dragged-out-of-hearing-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Haspel Says CIA Won\u2019t Torture Again as Ray McGovern is Dragged Out of Hearing \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After refusing to directly answer questions about her history as an alleged torturer, Ray McGovern decided to ask Gina Haspel a question or two of his own and he wound up in jail for it, reports Joe Lauria.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By Joe Lauria \u00a0<\/b>Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Haspel does not look like someone who would be associated with torture. Instead she would not be out of place as your next door neighbor or as a kindly grade-school teacher. \u201cI think you will find me to be a typical middle-class American,\u201d she said in her opening statement. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Haspel is the face of America. She not only looks harmless, but looks like she wants to help: perhaps to recommend a good gardener to hire or to spread democracy around the globe while upholding human rights wherever they are violated. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But this perfectly typical middle class American personally supervised a black site in Thailand where terrorism suspects were waterboarded. It remains unclear whether she had a direct role in the torture. The CIA said she arrived at the black site after the waterboarding of senior al-Qaeda operative Abu <\/span><\/span><\/span>Zubaydah\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>had taken place. Some CIA officials disputed that to <\/span><\/span><\/span>The New York Times<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>. The newspaper also reported\u00a0<\/a>last year that Haspel ran the CIA Thai prison in 2002 when another suspect, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was waterboarded. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even if she did not have a direct hand in overseeing the torture, she certainly acquiesced to it. And if that were not bad enough, Haspel<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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