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/ Steve Vladeck / Lawfare / Why Aren’t the Military Commissions Working? Look No Further Than Al-Nashiri
/ Marcia Coyle / National Law Journal / Jenner & Block Questions Alleged Monitoring of Guantánamo Defense Lawyers
/ Matt Tait / Lawfare / Now that Gina Haspel is CIA Director, It’s Time to Come to Terms With the Torture Program
/ Associated Press / Democrat McCaskill defends no vote on Trump CIA pick – but can't say why
/ Sam Thielman / Columbia Journalism Review / The CIA’s unprecedented PR push to make Gina Haspel its director
/ John Ryan / Mic / Gina Haspel’s torture record is being used as a defense in the 9/11 case — and it just might work
/ Shane Harris and Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post / Gina Haspel confirmed as CIA chief despite scrutiny of her role in interrogation program
/ Meg Kelly / Washington Post / Fact Check: Video: ‘What happened to the tapes?’ Gina Haspel’s role in destroying evidence of the CIA’s torture program
/ Marjorie Cohn / TruthOut / Senate Panel Endorses Gina Haspel, Despite Her Facilitation of Torture
/ Associated Press / GOP Pushes for Speedy Confirmation Vote for CIA Nominee
/ Associated Press / Confirmation Vote for CIA Chief Brings Out Democratic Rift
/ Matthew Kahn / Lawfare / Document: CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel's Responses to Questions for the Record
/ Brian Tashman / Speak Freely (ACLU) / The Government Has Information on Gina Haspel’s Torture Record. The Senate Can’t See It.
/ Julia Conley / Common Dreams / A Dozen Google Employees Resign Over Pentagon Drone Contract as 4,000 Workers Demand End to Project
/ Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams / Democrats Shamed for Supporting Gina Haspel, CIA Nominee Who Oversaw 'Chaining Detainees to Ceiling for Days, Naked or in Diapers'
/ Newsday / Senate should reject nominee for CIA director
/ Ed Brayton / Patheos / No, Torture Did Not Lead to the Capture of Bin Laden
/ Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post / Gina Haspel, Trump’s pick to lead CIA, wins support of Senate Intelligence Committee
/ New Jersey Journal / Do you approve of the harsh interrogation methods used by the CIA after 9/11?
/ Rachel Maddow / MSNBC / Video: Secret CIA torture report kept from senators ahead of Haspel vote
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