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	Podcast:		Maine Things Considered
	Episode:		King and Collins Question Haspel About Enhanced Interrogation Program
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:39
	Publish Date:		2018-05-09 12:51:37
	Description:		As promised, Maine's two U.S. senators had plenty of questions for Gina Haspel Wednesday morning, as President Trump's nominee to head the CIA appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Haspel was asked about her 33-year career with the agency and about the use of interrogation and torture techniques during that tenure. President Donald Trump has said he believes torture works, but during questioning from the Committee Wednesday, Haspel says she does not. Still, there was no shortage of questions for the nominee. Republican Sen. Susan Collins focused her questions on the interrogation techniques used by the agency in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Some of those practices, such as waterboarding, were deemed by some as torture and later banned by Congress. "Were you involved in any way in the creation of the enhanced interrogation program?" Collins asked. "Senator, I was not, and I was not read into the program until about a year into its existence," Haspel responded. "Were
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