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While the CIA has been trying to salvage Gina Haspel鈥檚 rocky nomination to lead the agency with a series of and by making public only flattering bits of her record, the American people have to reckon with a nominee whose role in torture and the destruction of torture evidence is still shrouded in secrecy.

The CIA positive stories about Haspel, hailing her as a trailblazer, consummate professional, dedicated agent, and Johnny Cash fan. At the same time, the agency won鈥檛 release full information about the most important and contentious parts of Haspel鈥檚 record.

Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to the CIA this week, protesting that it has continued to hide Haspel 鈥渂ehind a wall of secrecy鈥� while suppressing 鈥渄isturbing facts about her record.鈥� Sen. Heinrich also that the agency appeared to be 鈥渞unning a full-on propaganda campaign鈥� in support of her nomination, while 鈥渨ithholding鈥� key information.

While the CIA has that it is 鈥渃ommitted to transparency,鈥� it has so far only granted senators 鈥� and not the public 鈥� access to some classified information about Haspel. Last week, the CIA disclosed a 2011 memo 鈥� written by a former CIA official of excusing torture 鈥� which supposedly cleared Haspel of responsibility for the destruction of evidence documenting the brutal torture of a man in CIA custody in 2002. But the CIA shouldn鈥檛 get to cherry-pick which documents it will declassify 鈥� while hiding the most important torture records.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has also pushed back against the agency鈥檚 handling of Haspel鈥檚 nomination and a copy of a special prosecutor鈥檚 report that addressed the destruction of evidence of torture.

In fact, what we already know is disturbing enough: Haspel鈥檚 role in supervising the CIA鈥檚 torture program 鈥� and participating in the cover-up of torture videos 鈥� is not in question.

One former CIA official told The Daily Beast that Haspel 鈥�.鈥� Haspel for the torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at a CIA black site in Thailand. According to the , al-Nashiri was 鈥渟ubjected to the waterboard at least three times.鈥� Furthermore, The Daily Beast confirmed that Haspel 鈥溾�� 鈥� even if not physically present 鈥� during the earlier interrogations of Abu Zubaydah.

The horrific details of what took place in the CIA prison in Thailand can 鈥� and should 鈥� be read by everyone. They are detailed in a lengthy Senate report of the CIA torture program that can be found . Page after page describes the sadistic crimes perpetrated by the CIA on Abu Zubaydah, using the CIA鈥檚 own emails and cables, including this from a CIA email:

In at least one waterboarding session, Abu Zubaydah 鈥榖ecame completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth. According to CIA records, Abu Zubaydah remained unresponsive until medical intervention, when he regained consciousness and expelled 鈥榗opious amounts of liquid.鈥�

In all, Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times over the course of a month. That was in addition to being regularly stripped naked, slammed face first into a wall, denied sleep, and stuffed into a coffin-like box for hours on end. In a program in which Haspel was a supervisor, Abu Zubaydah鈥檚 torture became a template for the torture program going forward.

When the 老澳门开奖结果 filed a lawsuit against the two psychologists who designed the torture program, the defense the judge to order Haspel 鈥渢o provide a deposition discussing her allegedly pivotal involvement in an episode the CIA has tried repeatedly to put behind it.鈥� The federal government, supported by a statement from then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, stepped in to assert 鈥渟tate secrets鈥� and blocked Haspel from being deposed.

Even the internal CIA memo released by the CIA last week, which excuses Haspel for her role in the destruction of 93 videotapes documenting Abu Zubaydah鈥檚 torture, confirms that she drafted the cable ordering the destruction of the tapes. to then-acting CIA general counsel John Rizzo, Haspel was one of the 鈥渟taunchest advocates inside the building for destroying the tapes,鈥� lobbying Rizzo on a near weekly basis for their disposal.

This is the history that the CIA needs to tell us more about. Rather than selectively picking documents and anecdotes, the agency must declassify and come clean about Haspel鈥檚 complete role in the torture program 鈥� and its cover-up.