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Gina Haspel won’t say if she oversaw detainee waterboarding

By Steven Nelson
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Gina Haspel won’t say if she oversaw detainee waterboarding

Gina Haspel refused to say Wednesday during her confirmation hearing to be CIA director if she oversaw the waterboarding of terrorism suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in 2002.

Haspel reportedly became chief of base at a CIA black site in Thailand in October of that year. Nashiri arrived in November and was waterboarded at least three times before being transferred in December to a different facility, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report.

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