{"id":360964,"date":"2018-05-13T07:37:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T06:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/two-interrogations-gina-haspel-and-adolf-eichmann\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T07:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T06:37:52","slug":"two-interrogations-gina-haspel-and-adolf-eichmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/two-interrogations-gina-haspel-and-adolf-eichmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Interrogations, Gina Haspel and Adolf Eichmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>On May 9, Gina Haspel, Donald Trump\u2019s choice for head of the Central Intelligence Agency, testified at her Senate confirmation hearing in Washington, DC. Some senators questioned her about her tenure, in 2002, as CIA station chief in Thailand. There, the agency ran one of the \u201cblack sites\u201d where suspected al-Qaida extremists were interrogated using procedures that included waterboarding. She was also asked about her role in the destruction of videotapes in 2005 that documented the torture of illegally detained suspects.\u00a0Her evasive answers to these questions, disconcerting and unsatisfying, are also hauntingly familiar.<\/p>\n<p>In 1960, Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped by Israeli spies in Argentina and brought to trial in Jerusalem for his part in the extermination of millions of European Jews during Germany\u2019s Third Reich. In his interrogation with Israeli police, published as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0886190177\/counterpunchmaga\"><em>Eichmann Interrogated,\u00a0<\/em><\/a>DeCopo Books, NY, 1999, Eichmann, stated that in the intervening years since the acts in question his own view of them had evolved and before the Senate on May 9, Haspel expressed herself similarly.<\/p>\n<p>Haspel testified that while she can\u2019t say what exactly might constitute an immoral order in the past, her \u201cmoral compass\u201d would not allow her to obey one today, given the \u201cstricter moral standard\u201d she says \u201cwe have chosen to hold ourselves to.\u201d She does not judge the actions that she and her colleagues took in the years after 9-11, \u201cin that tumultuous time\u201d of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/11\/two-interrogations-gina-haspel-and-adolf-eichmann-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 9, Gina Haspel, Donald Trump\u2019s choice for head of the Central Intelligence Agency, testified at her Senate confirmation hearing in Washington, DC. Some senators questioned her about her tenure, in 2002, as CIA station chief in Thailand. There, the agency ran one of the \u201cblack sites\u201d where suspected al-Qaida extremists were interrogated using [&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-360964","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\/360964","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=360964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}