The CIA on Thursday reopened an old wound with the appointment of Gina Haspel, a career undercover operator, as its second-highest-ranking official. During the George W. Bush administration, Haspel operated one of the agency’s interrogation “black sites,” in Thailand, where waterboarding was repeatedly applied to terrorist suspects. Not only that, she signed off on a memo from her boss authorizing the destruction of internal interrogation videotapes as congressional investigators began poking around.
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