But Ms. Haspel said on Wednesday that the conversation never happened. She said that Mr. Rodriguez instead told her that he would discuss the issue with Mr. Goss before issuing the order, but then he sent it without having spoken to Mr. Goss. “Gina Haspel has claimed for years that she believed her boss would get signoff before ordering the destruction of the torture tapes,” Mr. Wyden said. We need to get to the bottom of what Gina Haspel did, and what she knew, before the Senate votes on her nomination.”Ms. Haspel seems likely to be narrowly confirmed. His lawyers have asked a military judge at the Guantánamo Bay wartime prison to grant permission for their client to send six paragraphs of information about Ms. Haspel to the Senate.

Source: New York Times May 10, 2018 23:49 UTC