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Mintpress News
April 12, 2018
Who's Who of War Criminals and Torture Apologists Endorse Gina Haspel for CIA Director .... Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 2, 2014, about the terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities inÃâà...
WTVM
April 12, 2018
In addition to leading the CIA and NSA, Hayden served as the country's first principal deputy director of national intelligence and the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the country. He also served as commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and director of the Joint Command and Control WarfareÃâà...
CNN
April 12, 2018
"He'll look good in comparison." Mike Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA, said that Pompeo will likely fight for the State Department to get more resources, after a year in which the administration aimed to cut agency staff by about 30%. Pompeo "did an exceptional job as the Director of the CIA.
GovConWire
April 11, 2018
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 10, 2018 — Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has named a former CIA deputy director and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration as a senior fellow, GovCon Executive reported Monday. The lab said Friday Avril Haines, who alsoÃâà...
CBS News
April 11, 2018
At the Cipher Brief's annual Threat Conference in Sea Island, Georgia on Monday, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon called Haspel one of her "dearest friends and favorite colleagues." "She is so solid, so true, and so not breathless that she will be an amazing leader of CIA,"Ãâà...
Executive Mosaic Media (blog)
April 10, 2018
Avril Haines, who served as deputy director at the CIA and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration, has been named a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She will join other national security and space experts who collaborate with theÃâà...
Newsweek
April 4, 2018
He said that efforts will be made to describe her role. Haspel is awaiting her confirmation hearing. She joined the CIA in 1985 and last year became deputy director under Pompeo, the first woman to serve that role in the history of the agency. If confirmed as director, she would be the first woman in that role,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 4, 2018
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (Carolyn ... Haspel has been amply rewarded for her service by becoming the deputy director. But, as Sen ... Either disqualifies her to run the CIA for a president who vowed to bring back waterboarding and a "helluva lot worse.".
The Cipher Brief
April 3, 2018
Gina Haspel, the deputy director of the CIA, stands ready to break through one of the most stubborn glass ceilings in the U.S. government, and this moment matters. Since the announcement of the decision to nominate her as CIA director, she has been the subject of numerous articles, statements andÃâà...
Fredericksburg.com
April 1, 2018
Having declared CIA torture illegal in 2015 in a historic, bipartisan 78-21 vote, the U.S. Senate once again in 2018 has a choice to stand on principle and against ... Haspel was a major figure in the discredited torture program of the Bush Administration and currently serves as the deputy director of the CIA.
Sean Hannity (blog)
March 25, 2018
The Deputy Director of the FBI is fired for lying to the FBI, and the guy who defends him is an ex-CIA Director labeled a “skilled liar” himself for. what Senator Feinstein, a Democrat, said was breaking the law and violating the Constitution. And what does John Brennan say in response?It is President TrumpÃâà...
The Keene Sentinel
March 25, 2018
John McCain, whose experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam has established him as Congress's moral conscience on torture, asked CIA director nominee Gina Haspel to detail her role in the agency's enhanced interrogation program. Haspel's tenure at the CIA, where she serves as deputy director, hasÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 24, 2018
(CIA via AP) This March 21, 2017, photo provided by the CIA, shows CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel. Haspel, who joined the CIA in 1985, has been chief of station at CIA outposts abroad. President Donald Trump tweeted March 13, 2018, that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the newÃâà...
WTOP
March 23, 2018
Their destruction, ordered by a higher-ranking CIA official in 2005, prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges. The memo did offer details about her biography and her taste in office art: A 5-feet tall poster of country music's Cash. Haspel, 61, the deputy director of theÃâà...
Between The Lines
March 22, 2018
In a series of cabinet shakeups, President Trump recently fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – and then tapped current CIA Director Mike Pompeo to take over at the State Department. The president then nominated CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to lead the nation's spy agency. However, Haspel'sÃâà...
HuffPost
March 22, 2018
WASHINGTON ― Democrats find themselves in a conspicuous position on the nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. ... Haspel, a 30-year CIA veteran widely respected by her colleagues as deputy director, would be the first woman to lead the agency if the Senate confirms her.
New York Times
March 22, 2018
But last weekend, Mr. Brennan — in response to Mr. Trump's praise for the firing of the former deputy director of the F.B.I., Andrew G. McCabe — issued a remarkable condemnation of the president. “When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will takeÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 20, 2018
Trump nominated the agency's deputy director, Gina Haspel, on 13 March 2018. But her record has come under question both in the U.S. and abroad because of her service while stationed at a secret CIA facility in 2002, leading to allegations that she committed war crimes (with commentary appearing,Ãâà...
ABC News
March 14, 2018
Officials within the FBI have recommended that the agency's embattled former deputy director, Andy McCabe, be fired, just days before he is set to officially leave ... FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to ... Similarly, in 2015, after former CIA director Gen.
TIME
March 13, 2018
“After thirty years as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, it has been my honor to serve as its Deputy Director alongside Mike Pompeo for the past year,” Haspel said in a statement Tuesday. “I am grateful to President Trump for the opportunity, and humbled by his confidence in me, to be nominatedÃâà...
CBS News
March 13, 2018
CIA Director Mike Pompeo appointed Haspel as the first female CIA officer to be named deputy director on February 2, 2017, and at the time, his choice was widely praised by top national security officials including former CIA Director Michael Hayden and former Director of National Intelligence JamesÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 5, 2018
Immediately after Tenet was named Deputy Director of the CIA in 1995, Pavitt got the new organization within the operations directorate called the Counter-Proliferation Division, or CPD. Pavitt immediately began the planning for a major operation targeting Iran. According to a CIA cable declassified for theÃâà...
CNN
March 4, 2018
The delegation includes national intelligence service chief, Suh Hoon; vice minister of unification, Chun Hae-sung; deputy director of the national ... CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently noted that North Korea could be just a few months away from achieving the goal of putting a warhead on a missile thatÃâà...
CBS News
March 2, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that his country had developed an array of new strategic nuclear weapons that can't be intercepted by U.S. defenses. The development is a reflection that the U.S. and Russia are "in a conflict," said former CIA deputy director Michael Morell. "We areÃâà...
NOLA.com
February 15, 2018
It's a question many are asking in the wake of the Valentine's Day school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead on Wednesday: When is enough going to be enough? For Phillip Mudd, a former CIA agent and FBI deputy director who now serves as a CNN counterterrorism analyst, that timeÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
Updated at 12:30 a.m. ET Saturday. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Friday even though he was on the doorstep of retiring and receiving his pension after two decades of service to the bureau. President Trump responded on Twitter just after midnightÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
Andrew McCabe, the onetime FBI deputy director long scorned by President Donald Trump and just fired by the attorney general, kept personal memos ... That sent former CIA Director John Brennan, an outspoken Trump critic, into a Twitter tizzy: "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, andÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Washington (CNN) Former CIA Director John Brennan blasted President Donald Trump on Saturday after he tweeted about the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, calling the President ... America will triumph over you," Brennan, who was CIA head under President Barack Obama, tweeted.
NPR
December 31, 1999
I am disappointed in Dianne Feinstein because where was Gina Haspel when John Brennan was ordering CIA officers to break into the Senate Intelligence Committee's computer system. That's an operation. She was the acting deputy director for operations. Did she do anything to stop it? Not that I've everÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Gina Haspel, a Kentucky native, loves Johnny Cash so much she keeps a 5-foot-tall poster of the country music star in her office at the Central Intelligence Agency. She became a spy more than three decades ago, a time when few women filled that job, and rose through the ranks holding some of theÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
December 31, 1999
He joins the ranks of CIA, NSA and Pentagon mouthpieces embedded in mainstream news outlets, such as Michael Morell, deputy director and for a time acting director of the CIA under Obama. Morell, also known for his defense of torture and drone assassinations, appears regularly on CBS News to makeÃâà...
Mintpress News
December 31, 1999
Neoconservatives forces openly talk about “punishing” Russia. The former Deputy Director of the CIA, Michael Morrell, said “We need to make the Russians pay a price” . He confirmed on public television that means killing Russians (and Iranians) in Syria. This is the 33 year veteran CIA leader who publiclyÃâà...
KTVQ Billings News
December 31, 1999
April 2005 - Is appointed principal deputy director of national intelligence. May 8, 2006 - President George W. Bush nominates Hayden to be director of the CIA. May 30, 2006 - Is sworn in as the director of the CIA. February 5, 2008 - During congressional testimony, Hayden acknowledges for the first timeÃâà...
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