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  1. Gina Haspel, who Trump named to replace Mike Pompeo as CIA director, ran a black site in Thailand where two suspected terrorists were tortured during the Bush administration. https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomasfrank/allegations-of-torture-have-blocked-the-rise-of-trumps?utm_term=.mx6qYgVkb#.ll5dklq1R President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects at a secret CIA prison in Thailand in 2002 and helped destroy videotapes documenting the brutality. Trump’s decision to name Gina Haspel as the intelligence agency’s first female director stirred immediate opposition this morning from at least one Democrat and the American Civil Liberties Union. Haspel has been the agency’s second-in-command since February 2017, when Trump appointed her. But unlike the deputy director, the CIA director must be confirmed by the Senate, where several influential Democrats have protested Haspel over her role in CIA torture while she was a clandestine agency officer. On June 7, the EU Center for Constitutional and Human Rights called on Germany to issue a warrant for her arrest over the torture allegations. Haspel would replace CIA Director Mike Pompeo, whom Trump said he would nominate to become secretary of state, replacing the ousted Rex Tillerson.
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