[67] On May 12, the first two Senate Democrats, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, announced their support for Haspel's nomination. Doug Stafford, an aide for Paul, said, "According to multiple published, undisputed accounts, she oversaw a black site and she further destroyed evidence of torture. She is the first woman to serve as the director in the CIAs history. That article, which misspells Haspel's name numerous times, reads in part: CIA Director Gina Hasple was arrested after she was injured in the Frankfurt Germany CIA building raid to secure the servers. Saudi Arabia initially denied all knowledge of the writer's whereabouts when he went missing on 2 October, but later admitted he was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, blaming "rogue agents". Simon Parkes: The five SpecOps killed in Frankfurt were shot by Ms Haspel's security team, & she was wounded. She was treated & taken on a rendition flight & quickly turned, telling everything she knows, & back in US She Is no longer ClA directorhttps://t.co/C6lW4MUdQO pic.twitter.com/Ni8MMnn9rc, HASPEL SHOT, FLIPPED pic.twitter.com/qRyPXf82lO, JUAN Q SAVIN (@richardgibb8) December 1, 2020. On February 15, 2017, Spencer Ackerman reported on psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, the architects of the "enhanced interrogation" program that was designed to break Zubaydah and was subsequently used on other detainees at the CIA's secret prisons around the world. "Bloody" Gina Haspel, appeared to be in the hot seat last week, with rumors rampant that she's lost . [81] Burns was sworn in as the new director on March 19, 2021. [24][26] In August 2018, cables from the site, dating from November 2002 and likely authorized by if not written by Haspel, were released due to a Freedom of Information lawsuit, and described the torture of Nashiri in detail, including slamming him against a wall, confining him to a small box, waterboarding him, and depriving him of sleep and clothing, while threatening to turn him over to others who would kill him. VT RADIO: The King Charles III Coronation Show, BLACKROCK KILLED CARLSON for Vaccines & Weapons Business. The article includes grammar and spelling errors, misspelling Haspel's name as "Hasple.". However, media reports have quoted Turkish security sources as saying the operation was run by a top aide to Prince Mohammed. She is undoubtedly the right person for the job, and the Committee looks forward to working with her in the future. Jamal Khashoggi and how Saudi critics keep going missing. In one version of the purported events, Haspel was Found Dead from Natural Causes,' with the information going viral in gov circles but there is currently a strict news blackout., Another, more elaborate account in which her name is misspelled Hasple claims the spy chief was arrested after she was injured in the Frankfurt Germany CIA building raid to secure the servers.. No, Gina Haspel isn't dead (or in jail) Former President Donald Trump issued a statement threatening to leak "interesting videos" of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. [86][87] She has never used social media.[3]. These documents would allegedly expose the supposed deep state plot against Trump. Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. CIA Director Gina Haspel persuaded the president by using new information and appealing to his emotions Is Gina Haspel the subject of a death hoax, or did something really happen to her? Several fact-checking projects debunked these claims, and were unable to find any evidence that Haspel had died or that a raid had taken place. In the days following the 2020 election, the internet was flooded with conspiracy theories that falsely claimed the election was rigged or fraudulent in some manner. in 2018, Senator Dianne Feinstein asked her if she had overseen the . Former Director of the CIA Gina Haspel Joins King & Spalding in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, Jul. [8], Haspel married Jeff Haspel, who served in the United States Army, c. 1976; they were divorced by 1985. However, theres no evidence suggesting that either the tweet or the Twitter profile is credible, and it cant be said that Gina Haspel is dead. NY Times/Post: False reports posted on social media claim that CIA Director Gina Haspel has died or else was injured and arrested during a raid on an agency building overseas. Gina Cheri Walker Haspel is an American intelligence officer serving as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2018. More pure fantasy here: Gina Haspel , was Shot and wounded (not seriously) in the Germany Raid, she was not Killed as rumoured , She was on route to Gitmo Cuba . With more than thirty years of service to the CIA and extensive overseas experience, Gina has worked closely with the House Intelligence Committee and has impressed us with her dedication, forthrightness, and her deep commitment to the Intelligence Community. Powell did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. You may not know that CIA Director Gina Haspel was killed last month in a U.S. Special Forces raid in Frankfurt, Germany, which retrieved a server used to control the Dominion voting machines. ", "Gina Haspel Used To Work For Me. She's A Great Choice For CIA Director", "Rand Paul to oppose Gina Haspel as CIA director over her 'gleeful joy' at torture", "CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel did not mock tortured detainee", "McCain presses Trump CIA nominee over her record on interrogations", "McCain asks CIA director nominee Haspel to explain role in post-9/11 interrogations", "Fatima Boudchar Was Bound, Gagged And Photographed Naked. WASHINGTON Internal Republican divisions over the fate of Gina Haspel's tenure as C.I.A. The CIA director travelled to Turkey on Monday to review intelligence about the incident. Shortly after this article was published, another rumor started to circulate about Haspel claiming that the CIA director had been "found dead" of "natural causes," which led to speculation that the government had actually killed Haspel and that they were now covering up her death. 2 Killed, 4 Hurt in Miss. Gohmert also said that his information was based on a tweet and that he did not know the truth, yet conspiracy theorists picked up this thread and ran with it. What Else Does the Senate Need to Know? Rule 2 does not apply when replying to this stickied comment.. Rule 2 does apply throughout the rest of this thread.. What this means: Please keep any "meta" discussion directed at specific users, mods, or r/conspiracy in general in this comment chain only.. [31][32], In December 2014, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a non-governmental organization that uses litigation to seek enforcement of human rights, asked that criminal charges be brought against unidentified CIA operatives after the US Senate Select Committee published its report on torture by US intelligence agencies. Despite Torture Concerns", "Controversial nominee Gina Haspel confirmed as first female CIA director", "Haspel: Intelligence panel 'pleased' with decision to expel 61 Russian officers", "Under CIA Chief Gina Haspel, an Intelligence Service Returns to the Shadows", "No, Gina Haspel isn't dead (or in jail)", "Was Gina Haspel Found Dead in November 2020? Another conspiracy theory circulating on social media is that American CIA director. [66] On May 10, The Washington Post Editorial Board expressed its opposition to Haspel's nomination for not condemning the CIA's now-defunct torture program as immoral. #DDK - ART OF WAR and more April 11, 2023. To read of her glee during the waterboarding is just absolutely appalling. On January 29, 2019, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Haspel reported that the CIA was "pleased" with the Trump administration's March 2018 expulsion of 61 Russian diplomats following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. ProPublica and The New York Times issued corrections to their stories but noted that Haspel was involved in the torture of al-Nashiri. [12][13], Haspel has attracted controversy for her role as chief of a CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 in which prisoners were tortured[14][15][16] with so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", including waterboarding. You have broken barriers and empowered the next generation of CIA officers, wrote the CIA of Haspel, who was confirmed as the first female director of the CIA in May 2018. This obituary, however, was not published by a credible national news organization, or even the local newspaper of Haspel's hometown in Ashland, Kentucky. Haspel can appear at least in a clip , holding a updated news paper , showing she is not dead as yet ! Most populous nation: Should India rejoice or panic? Image Via MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images. The latest focus appears to be on a well in the garden of the Saudi consulate building. [23][24] She worked at a site that was codenamed "Cat's Eye", which would later become known as the place where suspected al Qaeda terrorist members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah were detained and tortured with waterboarding. According to the tweet from the account that was deleted, Haspel was found dead from natural causes. Before the account was deleted, this rumor was retweeted several times. "Gina Haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in Germany," Powell told Cohen on the call, according to Karl's book. [83], Haspel has received a number of awards, including the George H. W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism,[84] the Donovan Award, the Intelligence Medal of Merit, and the Presidential Rank Award. [62][63][64] In April, a group of 109 retired generals and admirals signed a letter expressing "profound concern" over Haspel's nomination due to her record and alleged involvement in the CIA's use of torture and the subsequent destruction of evidence. In "Betrayal," Karl also wrote that Powell and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who previously employed Powell as his attorney, tried to enlist Cohen to help them overturn the 2020 election, ABC News reported. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had drafted a cable in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand in response to mounting public scrutiny of the program. These claims, likely stemming from QAnon conspiracy theorists, are false. Republican senator and former presidential candidate John McCain called on Haspel to provide a detailed account of her participation in the CIA's detention program from 20012009, including whether she directed the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" and to clarify her role in the 2005 destruction of interrogation videotapes. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. These claims, likely stemming from QAnon conspiracy theorists, are false. [50] Once confirmed by the Senate,[51] Haspel became the first woman to serve as permanent Director of the CIA (Meroe Park served as Associate Deputy Director from 2013 to 2017, and acting director for three days in January 2017). VT: As we got it from sources close to Mike Flynn, Haspel had been arrested for treason and was being taken to Gitmo when she was shot and killed in a raid. The CIA did not immediately respond to questions from Forbes. CIA Director Gina Haspel, who has had an increasingly strained relationship with President Trump during the final year of his administration, announced Tuesday that she is leaving the agency.. Another post visible here ,shows a screenshot of a tweet thatclaims Haspel was found dead fromnatural causesand that this is going viral in gov circles but there is currently a strict news blackout.. All rights reserved. Haspel added that the CIA did not object to the Treasury Department's decision in December 2018 to remove sanctions on three Russian companies tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Most posts said the servers belong to the software company Scytl, which is based in Barcelona, and some suggested the servers housed information from Dominion Voting Systems. "Gina Haspel, (for those that don't know(CIA Director) Found Dead. 8kun, formerly 8chan, is a fringe messaging board increasingly popular with QAnon conspiracy theorists. [3] She has four siblings. This is a rumor that has not been confirmed by any news outlet. Nov. 11, 2020. All content is owned by the author exclusively. All images are the full responsibility of the article author and NOT VT. These rumors stem from a debunked story about a fictional raid on a German software company. Due to the nature of uncensored content posted by VT's fully independent international writers, VT cannot guarantee absolute validity. However, the claim that election servers were raided in Germany was disproved weeks ago. Social media users have been sharing content online that claims Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gina Haspel was arrested, injured, or found dead. Do You Remember When Love and Peace Was A Thing? My colleagues Senators Wyden and Heinrich have stated that classified information details why the newly appointed Deputy Director is 'unsuitable' for the position and have requested that this information is declassified. [14][15][16][17][18] At that time, the Bush Administration considered the techniques legal based on a set of secret, now-rescinded legal opinions which expansively defined executive authority and narrowly defined torture. Mr Khashoggi, who was filmed on Tuesday shaking hands with the crown prince, had previously been unable to leave Saudi Arabia because of a travel ban imposed following his father's criticism of the kingdom's leadership. This alleged news comes after reports that Haspels career is hanging on by a thin thread, which President Trump could snap anytime. On Nov. 15, 2020, The Associated Press published an article investigating the rumor, which they determined to be false: CLAIM: The U.S. Army raided the Frankfurt office of the Spanish election software company Scytl to seize servers that had evidence of voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 U.S. election. The case has strained Saudi Arabia's relations with the US and other allies. Reuters Fact Check previously debunked this claim. The US State Department said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended Thursday's briefing at the White House with Ms Haspel, but gave no further information. That version apparently built on a previously debunked conspiracy that the US military had seized computer gear from the electronic voting company Scytl, which has said it was never raided and doesnt have any offices in Germany. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you . [22], In late October 2002, Haspel became a chief of base for a "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand. [40], From 2004 to 2005, Haspel was Deputy Chief of the National Resources Division. This theory reached a wide audience after Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said during a Zoom call that U.S. Army forces had seized servers from the software company Scytl in Frankfurt, Germany. It has been the greatest honor of my life to lead this remarkable organization, Haspel wrote in a statement shared by the CIA on Twitter. The building had no guards and was unprotected. Meanwhile, Khashoggi's eldest son Salah arrived in the US on Thursday. Several GOP lawmakers have publicly defended CIA Director Gina Haspel in recent days as it has become increasingly clear that President Donald Trump is considering firing her as part of his. CIA director Gina Haspel has briefed President Donald Trump on her visit to Turkey this week over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. He's running things and so if anybody were going to be, it would be him. For example, they wrote an obituary for "Carolyn Gombell," a non-existent woman featured in a fictional story about U.S. President Donald Trump being a murderer. Haspels intelligence career, though, hasnt been without controversy. Gina Haspel, Trumps Pick for CIA Director, Ran a Black Site for Torture (The Intercept), MyPillow CEO hints at scrapped plan to replace CIA director with Trump loyalist (CNN), This is a BETA experience. Subscribe and get full access to Ground News. False. First, Saudi Arabia said Khashoggi had left the building alive, then that he had been killed in a "fist-fight" inside the consulate. Dead persons , can t speak ! Powell believed the servers contained evidence showing that hundreds of thousands of US votes had been switched with rigged voting machines, and that Haspel set out to secure the servers so she could destroy the evidence, Karl wrote. The most popular one propagated by a tweet is that Gina Haspel is dead. Heres Why, Serious Omissions In Senate Probe Clearing Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Assault, Report Says, Gina Haspel, Trumps Pick for CIA Director, Ran a Black Site for Torture, MyPillow CEO hints at scrapped plan to replace CIA director with Trump loyalist. "[74], By May 2019, Haspel had hired many women in senior positions.[75]. [Meta] Sticky Comment. 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McCain further called upon Haspel to commit to declassifying the 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture. WASHINGTON During Gina Haspel's confirmation hearing to become director of the C.I.A. Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role in the interrogation of .

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