Gina Haspel appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee for consideration to be CIA director on Wednesday. Those are the central questions that Gina Haspel faced Wednesday in a sometimes-confrontational Senate committee hearing, the first step to getting confirmed to lead the CIA. Here are four takeaways from the hearing and what it could mean for Haspel's still-iffy chances to get approved by the full Senate. Haspel's résumé is hard to argue with: more than three decades of work, most of it as an undercover agent, for the CIA. Here's a classic argument from Republicans that Haspel's role was much ado about nothing: “We shouldn't be talking about what happened 17 years ago,” said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2018 17:33 UTC