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Gina Cheri Walker Haspel (born October 1, 1956) is an American intelligence officer who was the seventh director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from May 21, 2018, to January 20, 2021. She was the agency's deputy director from 2017 to 2018 under Mike Pompeo , and became acting director on April 26, 2018, after Pompeo became U.S ...
For comprehensiveness, the list below includes, in addition to dismissals and resignations, routine job changes such as promotions (e.g., Gina Haspel from CIA Deputy Director to Director), officials moving to a comparable position (e.g., John F. Kelly from Secretary of Homeland Security to Chief of Staff), and acting or temporary officials ...
On March 13, 2018, President Trump announced via Twitter that he would nominate Gina Haspel to be the CIA director. [254] On May 17, Haspel was confirmed by the Senate in a 54–45 vote, officially giving her the post, and making her the first full-time female CIA director.
Trump sought to make Patel deputy CIA director toward the end of his term in office but blinked when CIA Director Gina Haspel promised to resign if he went through with it.
Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, tried to clear the air over her role in the agency's controversial interrogation program at the start of her Senate confirmation hearing ...
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Originally planning on resigning on January 15, he rescinded his original resignation and submitted a resignation in protest, effective immediately, following the 2021 storming of the U.S Capitol. [38] Assistant Secretary of State (International Security and Nonproliferation) January 9, 2018 January 8, 2021 Thomas M. Countryman: September 29, 2011
The Republican senator from Arizona joins Democrats in calling for the release of a classified CIA report on Gina Haspel’s role in the destruction of videos of enhanced interrogation techniques.