MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ADVICE : THE PRETTY NEW ONES !
Trump fires Tillerson; Pompeo to State; Haspel moves up at CIA. On Friday, President Trump asked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to step down. This morning, he nominated CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Tillerson, and tapped Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel to move up. All that and more from the Washington Post, here.
Pompeo’s qualifications to be America’s top diplomat include five years as an Army armor officer, a Harvard law degree, six years in the House of Representatives, and nearly 14 months atop the spy agency.
Haspel’s to lead the CIA: She has worked there since 1985, mostly undercover. She drew praise when Trump tapped her for the deputy job last year, but: “She has been part of several controversies, including her involvement in several torture programs conducted by the U.S. She also ran waterboarding and other interrogation techniques at some of CIA’s ‘black sites’ or secret prisons,” as IBT put it last year. The New York Times has more: “Haspel oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects and later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting their brutal interrogations at a secret prison in Thailand.”
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