Gina Haspel told a top Democrat that she would “refuse to undertake any proposed activity that is contrary to my moral and ethical values” if confirmed to lead the CIA, and acknowledged that the agency’s past use of some interrogation techniques reflected poorly on the CIA.

“With the benefit of hindsight and my experience as a senior Agency leader, the enhanced interrogation program is not one the CIA should have undertaken,” she said in a letter to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the leading Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.