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Montevideo, April 26th 2024 - 22:39 UTC

Tag: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri

  • Wednesday, March 14th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

    CIA first woman chief an expert in “enhanced interrogation”

    Ms Haspel leadership positions include deputy director of the National Clandestine Service, and chief of staff for the director of the National Clandestine Service.

    Gina Haspel, 61, the newly nominated first-ever female director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is a career intelligence officer with more than 30 years' experience. Controversially, she ran a prison in Thailand where suspected al-Qaeda members were tortured by water-boarding in 2002.