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Topic: Gina Haspel

Avril Haines and Michael Morrell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Left to Joe: Say no to torture fans

Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd
Senator Mike Lee appears on Fox News (Fox News)

GOP slams admin's "insulting" briefing

Igor Derysh
Kellyanne Conway and Ivanka Trump (Alex Wong/Ron Jenkins/Getty Images/Salon)

RNC chair: Ivanka is "leading the way"

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Daniel Coats, director of National Intelligence, testifies on Worldwide Threats during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 29, 2019. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Why Trump is going after Dan Coats

Jefferson Morley - Independent Media Institute
Daniel Coats, director of National Intelligence, testifies on Worldwide Threats during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 29, 2019. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Intel chiefs: Trump is just wrong

Heather Digby Parton
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Officials scramble to deny writing op-ed

Shira Tarlo
Richard Nixon; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Like Nixon, mescaline makes Trump better

Lucian K. Truscott IV
John McCain (AP/Patrick Semansky)

McConnell demands apology for McCain

Matthew Rozsa
Dick Cheney; George W. Bush; Gina Haspel; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump's CIA pick walks back torture past

Matthew Rozsa
Dick Cheney; George W. Bush; Gina Haspel; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump's latest pivot: Full-on neocon

Paul Rosenberg
(AP/Getty/Salon)

After Iran: Arrogance and disaster

Patrick Lawrence
(TBS)

Samantha Bee on Hapsel's pastorture

Sarah K. Burris - Raw Story
Dick Cheney (Getty/Money Sharma)

Cheney: Make torture great again

Joseph Neese
John McCain being examed in Hanoi, Vietnam hospital as a prisoner of war in the fall of 1967. (AP)

McCain urges Senate to reject Haspel

Matthew Rozsa
CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate (Select) Committee on Intelligence May 9, 2018. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Haspel won't answer morality question

Nicole Karlis
CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel (AP via CIA)

Trump CIA pick dodges torture questions

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel (AP via CIA)

Haspel afraid of grilling about torture

Matthew Rozsa
Gina Haspel; Abu Zubaydah (AP/CIA/Department of Defense)

New report on CIA nominee may save her

Heather Digby Parton
Sen. Rand Paul (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rand Paul denounces Haspel, Pompeo

Charlie May
(AP/Carolyn Kaster/Getty/Pattanaphong Khuankaew/Salon)

Trump and presidential power: Not good

Heather Digby Parton
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson makes a statement on his departure from the State Department, March 13, 2018. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Experts call Tillerson "abject failure"

Shira Tarlo
Rex Tillerson; Donald Trump (Getty/Alex Wong/Mark Wilson)

How White House botched Tillerson's exit

Nicole Karlis
CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel (AP via CIA)

First woman ever to run the CIA

Charlie May
Rex Tillerson (AP/Cliff Owen)

Tillerson: The biggest departure

Matthew Rozsa
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