The US Senate confirmed Gina Haspel on Thursday (17/5) to become director of the CIA. This news also ended the controversy about Haspel's figure which became President Trump's proposal in her nomination some time ago.
Gina Haspel (61) who became the first woman to lead the CIA, is a veteran with 33 years experience in US intelligence agents.
Her election count is 54-45 which supports her 100-member nomination, where she gets the most votes
Six of the Democrats joined Republican supporters and President Donald Trump in a vote for Haspel. Only two Republicans did not vote for her.
Haspel was approved despite strong opposition for her association with torture interrogation methods, including waterboarding, a type of simulated torture for detainees, the effects for human feels drowning into the water. This torture method conducted in the years after the September 11 attacks.
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Joining the CIA since 1985, Haspel in 2002 has served as head of the CIA in Thailand, where she conducted interrogations in secret prisons using waterboarding torture. Three years later, she suspected a figure who ordered the destruction of video footage of the interrogation.
Meanwhile, Haspel received strong support from Trump administration, the majority of current intelligence officials and former lawmakers, including Democrats.
Senator Mark Warner, senator from the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee who oversaw the nomination, supported Haspel.
"I believe she is someone who can and will dare to face the president, who will tell the truth to the authorities if the president orders her to do something 'illegal' or 'immoral'," he said in a Senate speech before the vote.
Human rights groups have quickly condemned the vote. Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch called it "a byproduct that can be predicted and misunderstood of the US failure to address past abuses."
Trump nominated Haspel, in March to replace Mike Pompeo as director of the CIA.
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