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The CIA Needs an Independent Thinker—Not Gina Haspel

Her torture-ridden track record suggests a history of poor judgment.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Forty-five years ago this month, in the wake of the Watergate break-ins involving former CIA personnel, the agency produced a report known as the “” It contained the CIA’s accounting of incidents that it had engaged in, including operations that exceeded legislative limits. The report ran nearly 700 pages, and detailed operations against American journalists, assassination attempts, unauthorized experiments with LSD, break-ins, and more. When the report was leaked to the press, it sparked tremendous outrage and

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