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Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/421150-trump-tillerson-pompeo-secretary-cia/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
Source: _https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/973540316656623616
Regarding Gina Haspel, some info from wikipedia...
Source: _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Haspel
All in all, these kind of change does not seem to go forward more stability ... seems pretty hawkish from my point of view ... Wait & See...
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President Donald Trump ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, appointing Gina Haspel instead of him.
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Tillerson has recently taken an ambivalent stance towards North Korea. In mid-February, he said that he was “listening” to Pyongyang, adding that it is his job to “ensure” the North Koreans know that Washington keeps the negotiation channels open. At the same time, he also said that the US still prefers the policy of “large sticks” in relations with North Korea.
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Pompeo seems to have taken a more hard-line approach.
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Source: _https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/973540316656623616
Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Regarding Gina Haspel, some info from wikipedia...
Source: _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Haspel
Gina Cheri Haspel (born October 1, 1956) is an American intelligence officer, serving as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump in February 2017.[1][2][3] On March 13, 2018, Haspel was nominated by President Trump to become the Director of the CIA, succeeding Mike Pompeo and will be the first woman to hold the position if confirmed.[4] She joined the CIA in 1985.[1]
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Haspel ran a "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002.[5][6] The site was codenamed "Cat’s Eye" and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods.[7][8] Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a "large box", had his head slammed against a wall and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence (Interrogation of Abu Zubaydah).[9]
Haspel later was the chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez, who headed the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had "drafted a cable" in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand.[8]
In 2013, John Brennan, then the director of Central Intelligence, named Haspel as acting Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service, which carries out covert operations around the globe.[10] However, she was denied the position permanently due to criticism about her involvement in the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program.[11] Haspel has also served as the Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Foreign Intelligence and Covert Action.[5]
Haspel is the recipient of the George H. W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism, the Donovan Award, the Intelligence Medal of Merit and the Presidential Rank Award.[1]
On February 2, 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Haspel deputy director of the CIA. On February 8, 2017, several members of the Senate intelligence committee urged Trump to reconsider his appointment of Haspel as Deputy Director.[12] Senator Sheldon Whitehouse quoted colleagues Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich who were on the committee:
I am especially concerned by reports that this individual was involved in the unauthorized destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, which documented the CIA’s use of torture against two CIA detainees. My colleagues Senators Wyden and Heinrich have stated that classified information details why the newly appointed Deputy Director is 'unsuitable' for the position and have requested that this information be declassified. I join their request.
On February 15, 2017, Spencer Ackerman reported on psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, the architects of the enhanced interrogation program that was designed to break Zubaydah and was subsequently used on other detainees at the CIA’s secret prisons around the world. Jessen and Mitchell are being sued by Sulaiman Abdulla Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and Obaid Ullah over torture designed by the psychologists. Jessen and Mitchell are seeking to compel Haspel, and her colleague James Cotsana, to testify on their behalf.[13][14]
On March 13, 2018, President Donald J. Trump announced via Twitter that he will nominate Haspel to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, which would make her the first female CIA director.[15]
Criminal charges
On December 17, 2014, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights pressed criminal charges against unidentified CIA operatives, after the US Senate Select Committee published its report on torture by US intelligence agencies.
On June 7, 2017, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights called on the Public Prosecutor General of Germany to issue an arrest warrant against Haspel over claims she oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects. The complaint against her is centered on the case of Saudi national Abu Zubaydah.[16][17][18]
All in all, these kind of change does not seem to go forward more stability ... seems pretty hawkish from my point of view ... Wait & See...
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