WASHINGTON—The nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency appears to have the votes needed to be confirmed later this week, after winning over a senior Democratic senator who pressed her on the agency’s controversial interrogation program and picking up additional support from his side of the aisle. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and an influential voice on national security, announced Tuesday he would back Gina Haspel. He cited a new letter in which she said that the...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 15, 2018 17:09 UTC