Lots of Haspel coverage catalogued her refusal to answer questions. But few are considering the import that she all but admitted to pushing to continue torture in 2005. https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/05/09/ron-wyden-makes-it-clear-gina-haspel-pushed-for-torture-to-continue-in-2005/ …
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The torture report shows CIA manipulating both DOJ and WH to get torture reauthorized in May 2005, using custody of Abu Faraj al-Libi to do so (a trick CIA repeatedly used). And we know CIA continued to lie to DOJ abt what they were doing. Haspel would have been part of that.
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The biggest danger of Haspel isn't, IMO, that she'll restart torture. It's that she'll use the same anti-democratic bureaucratic tactics CIA/she used w/torture to protect the agency after it executes another stupid order from POTUS.
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And THAT's why @RonWyden emphasized the timing of Haspel pushing to continue torture in 2005-2007: bc she CAN'T, as she did wrt 2002 torture, blame the panic after 9/11. She was pushing to keep torture 5.5 years later.
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