CIA deputy director Gina Haspel, who was responsible for some but not all dubious interrogations at a “black site” in Thailand. Photo: CIA
ProPublica: Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah
ProPublica erred when it reported in 2017 that Gina Haspel was in charge of a secret prison in Thailand during the infamous interrogation of an al-Qaida suspect.
On Feb. 22, 2017, ProPublica published a story that inaccurately described Gina Haspel’s role in the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al-Qaida leader who was imprisoned by the CIA at a secret “black site” in Thailand in 2002.
The story said that Haspel, a career CIA officer who President Trump has nominated to be the next director of central intelligence, oversaw the clandestine base where Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding and other coercive interrogation methods that are widely seen as torture. The story also said she mocked the prisoner’s suffering in a private conversation. Neither of these assertions is correct and we retract them. It is now clear that Haspel did not take charge of the base until after the interrogation of Zubaydah ended.
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Update: CIA Nominee Gina Haspel Actually Did Not Supervise the Agency’s Most Notorious Use of Waterboarding (NYMag).
WNU Editor: Regular reader Robert gave me a heads-up on this story this morning. ProPublica made the claim last year that Gina Haspel was the CIA officer responsible for the CIA torture of Abu Zubaydah and one other detainee in Thailand. When she was nominated to be the next CIA Director by President Trump ..... every news organization used ProPublica's report from last year detailing this claim. Last night ProPublica came out and posted a retraction of their 2017 story .... labeling it as false. But if you do a Google search right now .... every major news organization .... AP, Reuters, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC, CBC, etc. .... they are still covering the story that she oversaw the CIA's torture program in Thailand. Even posting stories after ProPublica's retraction repeating the claim .... a claim that I must repeat again is completely false. Fake news .... you betcha.
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