emptywheel

Note: the claim this was about protecting officers doesn't make sense for reasons I'll go into later.

Haspel: The official record is the cable record, we use that to detail all our operations. [So why is that not sufficient to do a SSCI report off of? That makes NO SENSE.]

In her description of legal/policy issues behind destroying tapes so far, Haspel hasn't mentioned the active request from Carl Levin for tapes.

Haspel says there was a HPSCI investigation that never produced a report. She says HPSCI Chair found no problem. That's VERY curious given that Pete Hoekstra had a briefing the day of the destruction.

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.

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.

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.

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.