Former Trump CIA Chief Gina Haspel observed waterboarding during her time with the agency. NYT reported:
James E. Mitchell, a psychologist who helped develop the agency’s interrogation program, testified that the chief of base at the time, whom he referred to as Z9A in accordance with court rules, watched while he and a teammate subjected al-Nashiri to “enhanced interrogation” that included waterboarding at the black site.
Z9A is the code name used in court for Haspel.
Waterboarding has been a crime for over seventy years.
In 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian. Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.Haspel currently works for D.C. law firm King and Spalding. Their website states:
In particular, Haspel helps the firm’s corporate, private equity, family office and other global clients to assess and manage institutional risks.
The law firm had this to say about Gina's hiring.
“Gina joins a team who have held leadership positions in the nation’s intelligence, enforcement and regulatory agencies and who counsel clients on globally significant matters.”
“King & Spalding has powerful capabilities to help clients to identify opportunities, manage risk, and gain advantage in the highly-competitive global business environment,” Haspel said in the statement, provided by the firm.The greed and leverage boys need advice on how to turn sketchy financial acts into something not worth investigating. Gina Haspel has that knowledge and experience.
