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Senate Confirms Haspel to Lead C.I.A. Despite Torture Concerns WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel on Thursday to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, elevating a woman to the directorship for the first time despite bipartisan misgivings about her role in the agency’s brutal detention and interrogation programs in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/us/politics/haspel-confirmed.html