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CIA nominee offered to withdraw

over interrogation program

By ZEKE MILLER and DEB draw her nomination, two Associated Press on Friday.
RIECHMANN senior administration of- She is expected to reiterate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gina ficials said Sunday, amid that publicly this week.
In this May 2, 2018, photo, CIA Director-nominee Gina Haspel Haspel, President Donald concerns that a debate Haspel, one official said,
attends the ceremonial swearing in for Secretary of State Mike Trump's nominee to lead over a harsh interrogation was wary of suffering the
Pompeo at the State Department in Washington. the Central Intelligence program would tarnish her same fate as failed veter-
Associated Press Agency, offered to with- reputation and that of the ans affairs nominee Ronny
CIA. Jackson and of dredging
White House aides on Fri- up the CIA's troubled past.
day sought out additional She took over last month
details about Haspel's in- as the acting CIA director
volvement in the CIA's after the previous director,
now-defunct program of Mike Pompeo, was sworn in
detaining and brutally in- as secretary of state.
terrogating terror suspects After her offer to withdraw,
after 9/11 as they prepared White House aides worked
her for Wednesday's con- to reassure her that she had
firmation hearing. This is the president's support.
when she offered to with- As with other nominations,
draw, the officials said. this one hit a roadblock
They said Haspel, who is but is back on track, said a
the acting director of the third administration official
CIA, was reassured that familiar with the effort to
her nomination was still get her confirmed.
on track and will not with- Haspel's conversations with
draw. The officials spoke on senators continue ahead
the condition of anonym- of Wednesday's confirma-
ity to discuss internal delib- tion hearing at the Senate
erations. The news was first Intelligence Committee
reported Sunday by The and a later full vote in the
Washington Post. Senate.
Haspel, who would be the In addition, the CIA has
first woman to lead the sent materials to the Sen-
CIA, is the first career op- ate, some classified, that
erations officer to be nomi- the lawmakers can read to
nated to lead the agency better understand not only
in decades. She served al- her work in the Counterter-
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would stand firm against groups such as the Ameri-
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brutal detention and inter- which says she should have
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