WASHINGTON — Gina Haspel, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, made a rare public appearance on Thursday to give a nostalgia-laced recruiting pitch to students at Auburn University. But she was confronted instead by a heckler shouting about her role in torturing suspected militants in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Ms. Haspel was recounting the excitement she felt at the start of her own career when the heckling began. “Tell these young children, tell them who you tortured. has strenuously sought to distance Ms. Haspel from the now-defunct torture program since 2017, when she was named the agency’s deputy director; she ascended to the top job nearly a year ago.

Source: New York Times April 18, 2019 18:00 UTC