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It “did damage to our officers and our standing in the world,” Haspel wrote in a separate statement, and she told senators that she would be guided in the future by her “moral compass.” The committee, which had access to the https://www.pick-canadagoose.com cables, which were classified, conducted much of its questioning of her and its final 10 to 5 vote in her favor behind closed doors. The full Canada Goose Parka Senate confirmed her as CIA director, 54 to 45.
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The Thailand site was closed in December 2002.
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The archive filed a request for the cables in April, after President Trump nominated Haspel for the CIA post. Blanton said in an interview canada goose uk shop that researchers were able to triangulate heavily redacted footnotes in the Senate report, as well as documents that had been declassified as part of the case against Mitchell and Jessen and in anticipation of Haspel’s confirmation hearing, to confirm that they were sent during Haspel’s tenure as head of the Thailand facility.
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“[Redacted name] deftly removed the subject’s black hood with a swipe, paused, and in a deep, measured voice said that the subject.. should reveal what subject had done to vex his guards to the point of rage” during a theatrical storming of his cell the previous day, described in an earlier cable, that had been designed to frighten him.
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