Trump CIA Nominee, Gina Haspel, Faces Tough Road To Senate Confirmation
The current deputy director of the CIA is well respected by intelligence professionals, but she is tied inextricably with dark chapters involving torture.
Updated at 1:10 p.m. ET
President Trump's nominee to take over the CIA faces a rocky confirmation hearing in the Senate and a narrow political path to secure the job.
Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel is a career intelligence officer widely respected within the agency but tied up inextricably with one of the ugliest chapters in its history.
She ran a secret prison in Thailand where a suspect in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack was waterboarded 83 times â and then was involved with ordering evidence about that waterboarding to be destroyed.
The CIA's network of clandestine prisons and use of brutal
