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Gina Cheri Walker Haspel (born October 1, 1956) is an American intelligence officer who was the seventh director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from May 21, 2018, to January 20, 2021. She was the agency's deputy director from 2017 to 2018 under Mike Pompeo , and became acting director on April 26, 2018, after Pompeo became U.S ...
CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel wanted to pull her nomination to head the agency amid growing concern among lawmakers over her time leading a secret prison.
Trump swept concerns that his CIA director nominee, Gina Haspel, had allowed torture under her rule, under the rug by saying she was just "tough on terror."
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday he would support President Donald Trump's nominee to be CIA director, Gina ...
On March 13, 2018, President Trump announced via Twitter that he would nominate Gina Haspel to be the CIA director. [254] On May 17, Haspel was confirmed by the Senate in a 54–45 vote, officially giving her the post, and making her the first full-time female CIA director.
But when news broke Tuesday evening that Trump had selected as his CIA Director John Ratcliffe, ... including then-CIA director Gina Haspel, pushed back on pieces of the campaign. ...
A 2019 press report stated that Gina Haspel had been assigned to one of the CIA black sites at Guantanamo [3] and quoted Helt as saying there had been "a lot of shadiness" in the CIA's narrative about Gina Haspel's career, and that she (Helt) would find it "unsurprising" to learn that Haspel had been in charge at Guantanamo.
Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, tried to clear the air over her role in the agency's controversial interrogation program at the start of her Senate confirmation hearing ...