Mr. Warner called his decision “difficult” and said there were “valid questions” about her record. In her testimony last week, Ms. Haspel had vowed never to restart a detention and interrogation program and said she would obey current law. But she also refused to condemn the agency’s defunct torture program and insisted that it had been legal at the time. in the second term of the Obama administration, had during his 2013 confirmation process “quite explicitly repudiated” the agency’s interrogation program. Ms. Haspel’s written responses also briefly addressed other important issues that did not come up at her hearing.

Source: New York Times May 15, 2018 17:00 UTC