Gina Haspel privately making promises to senators about not reopening CIA program: Report

By Diana Stancy Correll

Published April 28, 2018 12:22am ET

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Gina Haspel privately making promises to senators about not reopening CIA program: Report — CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, who joined the CIA in 1985, has been chief of station at CIA outposts abroad. President Trump tweeted March 13 that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the new secretary of state and that he would nominate Haspel to replace him. (CIA via AP) | (CIA via AP)

President Trump’s CIA director nominee, Gina Haspel, is promising senators ahead of her May 9 confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee that she will not reopen a detention and interrogation program, a new report says.

According to an anonymous congressional aide, Haspel intents to provide assurance in her “opening statement and has been telling members that as well,” per Reuters.

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