Off the rails: Inside Trump’s aborted plan to control the CIA - Axios

In his final weeks in office, after losing the election to Joe Biden, President Donald Trump embarked on a vengeful exit strategy that included a hasty and ill-thought-out plan to jam up CIA Director Gina Haspel by firing her top deputy and replacing him with a protege of Republican Congressman Devin Nunes...

https://www.axios.com/off-the-rails-trump-cia-kash-patel-6c5ea317-43e9-48da-993f-5c7ab823c4c1.html

Dick Cheney: Restart enhanced interrogation programs - POLITICO

Cheney has long defended the post-9/11 tactics even as the national climate shifted over the years. ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/10/dick-cheney-enhanced-interrogation-579910

CIA’s latest push for Haspel slammed by left - POLITICO

Liberal activists say the spy agency is selectively declassifying information in a bid to boost her nomination. ...
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/01/cia-haspel-senate-confirm-timeline-564377

Publisher Offers Free E-Book Of Torture Report In Response To Gina Haspel's CIA Nomination - HuffPost

An independent book publisher is making it easier to read the Senate ...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gina-haspel-torture-report_us_5aaa8eb9e4b045cd0a6f7722

I went to prison for disclosing the CIA’s torture. Gina Haspel helped cover it up. - The Washington Post

I was inside the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters on Sept. 11, 2001. Like all Americans, I was traumatized, and I volunteered to go overseas to help bring al-Qaeda’s leaders to justice. I headed counterterrorism operations in Pakistan from January to May 2002. My team captured dozens of al-Qaeda fighters, including senior training-camp commanders. One of the fighters whom I played an integral role in capturing was Abu Zubaida, mistakenly thought at the time to be the third-ranking person in the militant group....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-went-to-prison-for-disclosing-the-cias-torture-gina-haspel-helped-cover-it-up/2018/03/15/9507884e-27f8-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html

Trump’s nominee for CIA director could help bury key torture documents - ThinkProgress.org

President Donald Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the Central Intelligence Agency and Mike Pompeo to lead the State Department on Tuesday has raised new concerns about the fate of key documents about the country's torture program. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/haspel-could-help-bury-torture-docs-7bae0045b2a3/

Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah — ProPublica

On Feb. 22, 2017, ProPublica published a story that inaccurately described Gina Haspel's role in the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al-Qaida leader who was imprisoned by the CIA at a secret "black site" in Thailand in 2002. The story said that Haspel, a career CIA officer who President Trump has nominated to be the next director of central intelligence, oversaw the clandestine base where Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding ....
https://www.propublica.org/article/cia-cables-detail-its-new-deputy-directors-role-in-torture#141361

“She Tortured Just for the Sake of Torture”: CIA Whistleblower on Trump’s New CIA Pick Gina Haspel

Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou personally knew CIA director nominee Gina Haspel when he worked at the CIA. But their careers have taken very different paths over the past decade. Haspel, who was directly involved in torture at a secret CIA prison in Thailand, has been promoted to head the agency. Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the torture program, ended up being jailed for 23 months.....
Interview:
https://youtu.be/ZpDc1hscfeQ

Gina Haspel, Trump’s CIA Pick, Ran a Laboratory for Torture - The Daily Beast

Donald Trump's choice for his next CIA director was involved in its infamous torture program, a history that is already beginning to complicate her confirmation before the only panel to thoroughly investigate torture: the Senate intelligence committee. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-cia-pick-gina-haspel-ran-a-laboratory-for-torture