Comments by "Robert Steele" (@robertsteele474) on "Avril Haines, nominee for DNI, goes through Senate Confirmation hearing" video.

  1. In 2015 Haines, then Deputy Director of the CIA,[30] was tasked with determining whether CIA personnel should be disciplined for hacking computers of Senate staffers authoring the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture. Haines chose not to discipline them, overruling the CIA Inspector General.[31] During the Democratic National Committee email leak in the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign, Haines as DNSA convened a series of meetings to discuss ways to respond to the hacking and leaks.[32] Subsequently, she was involved in the CIA project of redacting the Senate report [33] for release. In the end, only 525 pages of the 6,700-page CIA torture report were released.[34]
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