| Abstrakt: |
I admire Gina Haspel's CIA career described in the May 8 front-page article "Long undercover, CIA pick now under microscope." But to say she does not "favor" torture is not good enough for me, particularly because she argued for destroying nearly 100 videotapes of torture, claiming the videotapes, which revealed the faces of CIA officers, put them at risk for retaliation by terrorists. (It is hard to believe the videotapes could not have been preserved with the faces obscured.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
