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	Podcast:		SDPB Radio Newscast
	Episode:		Rounds Discusses CIA Director Nominee, Proposed Changes to SNAP
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:00:34
	Publish Date:		2018-05-10 20:08:00
	Description:		South Dakota U.S. Senator Mike Rounds has not decided if he will vote to confirm CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel. She testified in front of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday. Rounds says he's confident Haspel is qualified to lead the agency. But, he says some questions remain in advance of the confirmation vote. Rounds says those questions pertain to interrogations against terrorism suspects in the 2000s. "What role did she have, and are we certain as to the extent that she was involved in the waterboarding events that did occur. Second of all, were there other areas that she was involved with - did she have a supervisory role, or was she following orders from someone above? What is her thought with regard to the use of torture by the CIA in the future? She's made that part very clear that she thinks that's wrong, and she would not be agreeable to doing that.” Rounds says he wants to confirm that Haspel did not take part in destroying tapes of CIA agents using torture.
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