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Gina Haspel, the newly named director of the CIA, and the first woman named to the position, is a career spymaster who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects we stanley canada re waterboarded -- a harsh interrogation technique President Donald Trump has supported.President Trump announced Haspel s promotion Tuesday morning in the same tweet where he announced his ouster of embattled Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Mike Pompeo s selection as his replacement.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 stanley cup officials including former CIA Director Michael Hayden and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who is a vocal Trump critic. Gina Haspel CIA Haspel joined the agency in 1985 and has extensive overseas experience, including several stints as chief of station at outposts abroad. In Washington, she has held several top senior leadership positions, including deputy director of the National Clandestine Service and deputy director of the National Clandestine Service for Foreign Intelligence and Covert Action. She also had a role in the CIA s former covert program where stanley quencher suspected terrorists were subjected to harsh interrogation methods, including waterboarding, which sim Qmyw Donald Trump defends calling Mexican immigrants rapists
Democrats took control of Senate seats from Republicans in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Missouri, according to CBS News projections, but Democrats still need to take away the two remaining seats mdash; Montana and Virginia mdash; to assume control of the Senate. The Democratic challengers held slim leads in those races Wednesday morning.With Republican Bob Corker projected to wi stanley vattenflaska n the Tennessee Senate race and Republican Sen. Jon Kyl the projected winner of the Arizona Senate race, obtaining a Senate majority became a steeper uphill battle for Democrats; they needed to sweep every remaining race.Missouri Sen. Jim Talent was estimated to have been defeated by his Democratic opponent, Claire McCaskill, a former attorney and Jackson County prosecutor. Hours after polls closed across the country, two races definied themselves as cliffhangers, with numbers so close news outlets would not project winners.The race in Virginia between Democrat Jim Webb mdash; a best-selling author, Vietnam Marin stanley mug e and former Republican mdash; and the incumbent, Se stanley thermoskannen n. George Allen, appears too close to call Tuesday night. Once a long shot, Webb has made the race a toss-up. The votes are in and we won, Webb said, though there were still votes to count. With nearly all precincts counted and the two candidates separated by a razor-thin margin, Virginians mdash; and the nation mdash; waited to see what would happen. The race is so close that it seems li
Gina Haspel, the newly named director of the CIA, and the first woman named to the position, is a career spymaster who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects we stanley canada re waterboarded -- a harsh interrogation technique President Donald Trump has supported.President Trump announced Haspel s promotion Tuesday morning in the same tweet where he announced his ouster of embattled Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Mike Pompeo s selection as his replacement.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 stanley cup officials including former CIA Director Michael Hayden and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who is a vocal Trump critic. Gina Haspel CIA Haspel joined the agency in 1985 and has extensive overseas experience, including several stints as chief of station at outposts abroad. In Washington, she has held several top senior leadership positions, including deputy director of the National Clandestine Service and deputy director of the National Clandestine Service for Foreign Intelligence and Covert Action. She also had a role in the CIA s former covert program where stanley quencher suspected terrorists were subjected to harsh interrogation methods, including waterboarding, which sim Qmyw Donald Trump defends calling Mexican immigrants rapists
Democrats took control of Senate seats from Republicans in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Missouri, according to CBS News projections, but Democrats still need to take away the two remaining seats mdash; Montana and Virginia mdash; to assume control of the Senate. The Democratic challengers held slim leads in those races Wednesday morning.With Republican Bob Corker projected to wi stanley vattenflaska n the Tennessee Senate race and Republican Sen. Jon Kyl the projected winner of the Arizona Senate race, obtaining a Senate majority became a steeper uphill battle for Democrats; they needed to sweep every remaining race.Missouri Sen. Jim Talent was estimated to have been defeated by his Democratic opponent, Claire McCaskill, a former attorney and Jackson County prosecutor. Hours after polls closed across the country, two races definied themselves as cliffhangers, with numbers so close news outlets would not project winners.The race in Virginia between Democrat Jim Webb mdash; a best-selling author, Vietnam Marin stanley mug e and former Republican mdash; and the incumbent, Se stanley thermoskannen n. George Allen, appears too close to call Tuesday night. Once a long shot, Webb has made the race a toss-up. The votes are in and we won, Webb said, though there were still votes to count. With nearly all precincts counted and the two candidates separated by a razor-thin margin, Virginians mdash; and the nation mdash; waited to see what would happen. The race is so close that it seems li