{"id":48785,"date":"2021-01-19T18:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=48785"},"modified":"2021-01-19T18:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:43:35","slug":"cias-torture-queen-gina-haspel-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=48785","title":{"rendered":"CIA&#8217;s &#8220;Torture Queen&#8221; Gina Haspel Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CIA director Gina Haspel resigns a day before Biden inauguration<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_48787\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48787\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/60072c4c2030272dcc156e4f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48787\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/60072c4c2030272dcc156e4f.jpg 980w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/60072c4c2030272dcc156e4f-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/60072c4c2030272dcc156e4f-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-48787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Gina Haspel speaks after being sworn in as CIA Director in May 2018, as US President Donald Trump looks on \u00a9 REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>The Trump-appointed director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, has left her post after 36 years with the intelligence agency, announcing her resignation on Tuesday \u2013 a day ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted to Twitter by the CIA, Haspel said she was\u00a0<em>\u201cdeeply proud of the work [she and the CIA] have done together,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which \u2013 while largely classified \u2013 included running one of the agency\u2019s notorious\u00a0<em>\u201cblack site\u201d<\/em>\u00a0prisons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1351597676182302726&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F513013-cia-director-haspel-resigns%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1351597676182302726\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She was appointed director of the CIA in 2018, becoming the first woman to hold the role, and replaced Mike Pompeo, who had been promoted to Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>While Haspel reportedly threatened to resign last month as President Donald Trump prepared to name Kash Patel, former aide to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) as her deputy, the plan was apparently cancelled at the last minute when she got wind of it.\u00a0Trump had apparently grown to distrust Haspel, who had worked as London CIA station chief under former agency director John Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her apparent involvement in the CIA\u2019s torture program, Haspel narrowly squeaked by confirmation to run the US spy agency after writing in a letter to the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee that the program had\u00a0<em>\u201cultimately done damage\u201d\u00a0<\/em>to the US\u2019<em>\u00a0\u201cstanding in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in her career, Haspel oversaw a CIA\u00a0<em>\u201cblack site\u201d<\/em>\u00a0prison in Thailand, known as Detention Site Green. Since-declassified cables have revealed the brutality used to interrogate suspects there, including one\u00a0detailing the harrowing waterboarding of a prisoner periodically for 17 days.<\/p>\n<p>While a report alleging Haspel ran the site at the time of that incident has since been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/cia-cables-detail-its-new-deputy-directors-role-in-torture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retracted<\/a>, she took over management of the site shortly thereafter and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2018\/03\/gina-haspel-black-site-torture-cia\/555539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a>\u00a0presided over similar\u00a0<em>\u2018enhanced interrogation techniques\u2019<\/em>\u00a0of other prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Biden named William Burns, who served as Deputy Secretary of State under the Obama administration, as Haspel\u2019s replacement, though he must be confirmed by the Senate to officially take up the post.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/513013-cia-director-haspel-resigns\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/513013-cia-director-haspel-resigns\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIA director Gina Haspel resigns a day before Biden inauguration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}