"With the benefit of hindsight and my experience as a senior agency leader, the enhanced interrogation program is not one the CIA should have undertaken." At the hearing, she said she would not permit the CIA to resume an interrogation program, but she also would not condemn the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program beyond saying that the CIA was not prepared to run the program and she supported the "stricter moral standard" that is now the law. Haspel also told Warner that it "was a mistake not to brief the entire committee at the beginning" of the interrogation program. Haspel's confirmation has been a difficult fight because of her role in the interrogation program, which critics say amounted to torture. Haspel is facing criticism for her supervision of a black site in Thailand where harsh interrogations were conducted along with her role in the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes.

Source: CNN May 15, 2018 14:39 UTC