Former CIA director John Brennan has been in the news since July, when he called the president “treasonous.” Brennan immediately became a #resistance hero (despite his highly questionable record), and last week Trump responded by abruptly stripping him of his security clearance.
If you haven’t been reminded recently enough of how utterly evil this government is, buckle up: defense and security contractors are bringing in millions off of the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
During an already hell-day of news, Gina Haspel was sworn in on Monday as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, making her the first woman to hold the post. Slay, mama!
Well, it happened: The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Gina Haspel as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, making her the first woman to lead our country’s evil international surveillance apparatus.
One of the biggest things standing in the way of Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee for CIA director, has been her history of overseeing torture. Well, in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to woo some of her critics, Haspel has finally admitted, after all these years, that maybe torture was not the best idea.…
NBC News reports that the Democratic staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee prepared a “classified background document” on CIA director nominee Gina Haspel which was “disturbing” to some senators and their aides. Which is very nice and good to hear, considering she’s almost certainly going to get confirmed.
Have you ever read the news, muttered to yourself, “What in tarnation is goin’ on here??” and then immediately chucked your phone into the nearest trash can?
Gina Haspel, the acting assistant director of the Central Intelligence Agency, once oversaw a CIA black site prison in Thailand, and drafted a cable to CIA operatives (on behalf of her boss at the time) ordering them to destroy evidence of suspected terrorists being tortured.
Gina Haspel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, is testifying in front of Congress today. Her nomination is seen as being on shaky ground thanks to her role in overseeing a CIA black site in Thailand during the Bush administration where prisoners were tortured. While her exact role is…
Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency, has a confirmation hearing before the Senate on Wednesday. But the White House is already beginning to hit the panic button over its nominee as controversy continues to swirl about her extensive connections to U.S. torture.
Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA, 33–year agency veteran Gina Haspel, had a minor meltdown on Friday and nearly withdrew her nomination, a new report in The Washington Post said.
In the frenzied game of musical chairs that is the Trump administration, CIA Director Mike Pompeo is set to become the next Secretary of State. It’s an ideal time, then, to clarify details of his biography, including a rather major one: did Pompeo, as numerous profiles have stated, fight in the Gulf War? We asked the…
When he was a Republican lawmaker from Kansas, CIA Director and current nominee for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made it clear he wanted nothing to do with the “perversion” of LGBTQ people. Those remarks came back to haunt him at his confirmation hearing on Thursday, when he repeatedly refused to say whether his…
Donald Trump has revealed time and again—from his “both sides” remarks defending white supremacists in Charlottesville to his rescinding DACA protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants—that he has a disdain for human lives. But a Washington Post story published on Thursday contained a tidbit that succinctly…
On Friday, the Central Intelligence Agency published a Twitter thread praising Gina Haspel, the deputy CIA director whom President Trump has nominated to head the agency. (Trump has nominated Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director, to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.)
Following the Trump administration’s firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just hours before he was supposed to retire, former CIA Director John Brennan has fired back at the president in what may be the harshest public criticism by any former CIA boss of a sitting U.S. president.
In 1942, Virginia Hall, the notorious Allied spy, fled France, with Nazi spyhunter Klaus Barbie hot on her trail, hiking the snowy mountains that make up the border with Spain. The opportunity presented itself to get word to her handlers in London. “Cuthbert” was weighing her down, she told them. They responded: “If…
This week it looks like a huge chunk of Donald Trump’s Cabinet is on thin ice. On Tuesday, Trump fired his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and has hinted that a further shakeup is in the works, with Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly among those who could possibly…
ProPublica has issued a major correction to an investigation by reporter Raymond Bonner from February 2017, which said that CIA Director-designate Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of prisoner Abu Zubaydah in a CIA black site in Thailand.
UPDATE, March 16: Last night, ProPublica issued a major correction to a 2017 story about Gina Haspel’s involvement in the waterboarding of detainees at the Thai black site “Cat’s Eye.” The non-profit news organization (and the New York Times) had reported that Haspel oversaw the torture of detainee Abu Zubaydah, but…
