Panel Democrats and some Republicans were primed to grill the career CIA operative about her clandestine background, particularly the role she played in the agency’s controversial interrogation program. Haspel pushed back against the characterization that she held a decision-making role in the interrogation program. “I think you will find me to be a typical middle-class American,” Haspel told senators. But Haspel’s CIA career has been anything but ordinary — and she acknowledged that practically nothing is known about her publicly. She retorted, “I am electing not to make an exception for myself, but I am adhering to existing RDI guidelines,” using the acronym for the CIA’s former rendition, detention and interrogation program.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2018 00:57 UTC