"CIA cannot be effective w/o people's trust." Hailing Congressional oversight process. Note, in her description of torture she didn't address destroying a video that Congress had asked for.
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Haspel: I knew there was disagreement about the issue of the tapes outside of the agency. We were working towards a meeting with the then Director. We were working through a process.
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Warner: Do you believe program consistent w/American values? Haspel: With some distance between events of 9/11, we've had debate about interrogation standards. We have decided to hold ourselves to stricter moral standard. I support US holding itself to stricter moral standard.
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Warner: I need to get a sense of what your moral code says about this kind of action. [Haspel taking notes abt Warner's comments abt Trump] Warner: What will you do when you are D/CIA? Haspel: My father served 33 years in AF, my parents gave me strong moral compass.
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Haspel's answer is really about risk to CIA officers, not about morals. So ... maybe her parents didn't give her a strong moral compass.
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Haspel: My moral compass is strong. I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that I thought was immoral. I believe CIA must undertake activities that are consistent w/American values. [Terrible follow up from Warner, tho he had been doing unusually well up until that point]
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Several minutes in Risch hasn't asked a question. Now asking a leading question about how oversight has changed.
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Haspel: There is no more important partnership than the one between CIA and DOD. Given reports of inadequate briefing on Niger operation this should get some follow-up.
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Haspel: Intelligence services of our closest allies do incredible things for the national security of this country, particularly in proliferation and counterterrorism.
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Feinstein: We asked agency that your record be declassified, to make informed decision and bc public should be informed. CIA declassified only small parts, hiding damaging aspects. I'm very limited in what I can say, I like you very much, probably most difficult hearing.
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Haspel says she is not the CoS described in Rizzo's memoir. Haspel: He issued a correction.
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Haspel: I did not run the interrogation department. Haspel: I was an advocate if we could within the law. I never watched the tapes.
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Haspel: Tapes were recordings of only 1 detainee. Meaning Haspel turned off the tapes when she oversaw torture of al-Nashiri.
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Haspel refuses to confirm she oversaw torture of al-Nashiri.
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Haspel: It is very important that D/CIA adhere to classification guidelines that all CIA officers abide by. [This is her excuse for not declassifying her own record -- the precedent.]
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Haspel suggests it would be a security risk to declassify link between her and al-Nashiri. There's only one risk here (because she's a target anyway): that she'd have to testify at Gitmo.
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What are American values? Dropping nuclear bombs? Overthrowing democratically elected governments? Starting offense wars? Drone striking innocent civilians?
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