Gina Haspel made history today when she became the first female CIA director. From Fox News:
Haspel was confirmed Thursday as CIA director, becoming the first woman to lead the agency after overcoming initial Democratic opposition regarding her role in post-9/11 interrogation and detention practices.
Haspel, who previously served as deputy director and...
A second Democrat senator has announced his support for President Trump’s pick to head the CIA. Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN) issued a statement in support of Gina Haspel. In doing so, he joins Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) in saying they support her nomination. Both senators are facing potentially tough reelections this...
As we’ve been covering here at LI, Gina Haspel is President Trump’s pick to head the CIA. She has been blasted for her role in overseeing then-legal and -authorized enhanced interrogation techniques against Islamist terrorists.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has issued a statement in which he urges the Senate not to confirm...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has decided to still oppose CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel as director of the spy agency despite the fact ProPublica retracted a report that claimed she supervised and participated in torture in 2002.
After President Donald Trump nominated CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to takeover as director, stories from a year ago circulated about how she was in charge of a secret CIA prison in Thailand that tortured al-Qaeda suspects. The reports contained claims that she even participated.
I even blogged about it, mainly because...
President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this morning and nominated CIA Director Mike Pompeo to take over that role. He also nominated CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to lead the spy agency.
If confirmed, Haspel will become the first woman CIA director. However, she may face a rocky road...
Attorney William Barr gave Fox News an interview while in El Salvador about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into the origins of the probe into possible collusion between Russia and now-President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016.
Barr defended his decision to investigate the origins because he found the answers people gave...
Monday, Sen. Rand Paul announced he would vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Paul was the only Senate Republican to openly discuss his reservations about supporting Kavanaugh (mostly due to his concerns about his favorite amendment and one he’s made a career championing and filibustering on behalf of...
The supposed ‘blue wave’ is shrinking on a near daily basis.
This was kind of a big deal.
Too late?
How… problematic.
Rumor has it that President Donald Trump is soon going to send Mike Pompeo on another rescue mission.
The target? CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel, who had to undergo two tortuous exchanges with the US senators from California during her confirmation hearing.
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President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and will nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo as his replacement.
The State Department’s statement said that Tillerson does not know why Trump let him go.
