Later, while serving in a powerful senior position at CIA headquarters, Haspel argued for destroying nearly 100 videotapes that recorded the interrogation sessions. [Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty]Senators and staffers then with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will hear Haspel’s testimony this week, were livid. In interviews with 15 current and former intelligence officials, including some who worked closely with Haspel, a portrait of her cloak-and-dagger life emerged. Intelligence officials worried that it would take years for the CIA to learn how to penetrate al-Qaeda. She did not give the order, in 2005, but she lobbied senior CIA officials and drafted a cable for Rodriguez, ordering field officers to destroy the material.

Source: Washington Post May 07, 2018 18:33 UTC