I’m more interested in how this story got started in the first place.
Where did Pro Publica get the false information about Gina Haspel in the first place?
Our account of Haspel’s actions was drawn in part from declassified agency cables and CIA-reviewed books which referred to the official overseeing Zubaydah’s interrogation at a secret prison in Thailand as “chief of base.” The books and cables redacted the name of the official, as is routinely done in declassified documents referring to covert operations. The Trump administration named Haspel to the CIA’s No. 2 job in early February 2017. Soon after, three former government officials told ProPublica that Haspel was chief of base in Thailand at the time of Zubaydah’s waterboarding.
Why would CIA employees lie on her like that? She was definitely NOT Chief of base during that time. And we wonder why NSA/MI/Trump are at war with CIA/Deep State/State/DOJ.