Rejecting CIA Torture, Haspel Seems to Secure Votes for Confirmation

FILE-- Gina Haspel, the Trump administration's nominee for CIA director, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 9, 2018. Haspel declared that the agency should not have undertaken its interrogation program in which al-Qaida detainees were tortured after the Sept. 11 attacks — a condemnation she refused to make at her confirmation hearing a week earlier. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)