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The Hill
April 28, 2018
She is a veteran of the CIA who has done multiple tours overseas and has strong support among the agency's employees. ADVERTISEMENT. But her nomination has already drawn opposition from some lawmakers, who have voiced concerns about her ties to the CIA's now-discontinued use of cruelÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 22, 2018
That dark chapter in CIA history has reemerged with President Trump's nomination of a new director, Gina Haspel, a career undercover officer who oversaw .... Although it's unclear whether any Thai personnel were present during CIA interrogations, Pornpen said local interrogators appear to have adoptedÃâà...
Newsweek
April 21, 2018
Updated | In some quarters, nothing says “trust me” more than former CIA employees running for public office. With their classified ... All four former officers spoke with Newsweek only on condition of anonymity because CIA personnel issues are highly sensitive, if not entirely classified. One black mark, theÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON — Gina Haspel's path to confirmation as the nation's next CIA director is shaping up to be a rocky and uncertain one in the Senate, with Democrats publicly sounding the alarm about her background as a career CIA employee and Republicans doing so privately. Haspel, 61, would be the firstÃâà...
Williamsburg Yorktown Daily
March 21, 2018
He retired as a federal employee in 2001 from the Central Intelligence Agency. Dave was a highly-spirited, community-minded individual. He volunteered as an EMT-C at York County Volunteer Rescue Squad, Abingdon Volunteer Rescue Squad and Yorkshire Volunteer Fire Department, Manassas, Va.,Ãâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 21, 2018
Fifty years ago on March 12, 1968, a top-secret U.S. base on a mountain top in Laos was overrun by an elite force of Vietnamese commandos. Only six of the eighteen CIA and Air Force personnel manning the remote outpost escaped with their lives in an incident that would remain veiled in secrecy forÃâà...
MyAJC
March 21, 2018
Susan Pompeo, the wife of Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, has taken an unusually active and prominent role at the organization, and has fashioned ... Pompeo also went with the CIA director on a tour of Fort Monckton, a military base in southern England where MI6 trains its personnel.
PJ Media
March 20, 2018
A Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" aircraft on display in the parking lot at Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters in McLean, Va., on July 15, 2014. ... He called CIA employees "vermin" and wrote, "Either I'm fleeing to Russia or, well, I suppose we'll see what surprises I've been cooking up for the rottenÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 20, 2018
The Trump administration has had its share of embattled nominees, but President Donald Trump's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency in March 2018 is ... CIA personnel, aided by two outside contractors, decided to initiate a program of indefinite secret detention and the use of brutal interrogationÃâà...
CNN
March 20, 2018
Washington (CNN) Susan Pompeo, wife of Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo, has taken on an unusually active role for a CIA spouse in agency affairs since ... It's odd that someone who is not a government official or an employee is allowed to direct actual government employees," Clark said.
New York Magazine
March 13, 2018
In the series of high-level personnel changes the White House announced this morning, the most controversial could wind up being the elevation of CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to succeed Secretary of State-designee Mike Pompeo as America's spy chief. A career CIA employee (mostly undercover),Ãâà...
New York Times
March 13, 2018
When it comes to torture, no American officials have been more practiced in those heinous dark arts than the officers and employees of the Central Intelligence Agency who applied it to terrorism suspects after 9/11. Few American officials were so directly involved in that frenzy of abuse, which began underÃâà...
MuckRock
February 22, 2018
During its 70 year history, a number of coffee-related controversies have gripped the Central Intelligence Agency - but perhaps none of them had such long-lasting impact on the caffeination of our nation's clandestine service as a year-long inquiry into the legality of using government funds to buy CIAÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
Comey asserts that newspaper columnist “Robert Novak had revealed the name of a covert CIA employee” in July 2003. When Novak published Valerie Plame's name and her relationship to the CIA, she was not “covert,” a term specifically defined in the relevant statute. I drafted and negotiated theÃâà...
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