Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the CIA, promised she would not resort to waterboarding and other harsh techniques that she once helped supervise, but critics said her assurances fell short. "Having served in that tumultuous time, I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership, on my watch, CIA will not restart a detention and interrogation programme," Haspel told members of the senate intelligence committee at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Haspel’s opponents, including human rights groups and some former military and intelligence officials, say the CIA hasn’t fully disclosed her role in "enhanced interrogation" programmes after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee’s senior Democrat, said that Haspel’s pledge that she would follow the law "is not enough". "We must hear how you would react if the president asks you to carry out some morally questionable behav...
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