Progressive outrage about Gina Haspel is unfair

[Chris]

[Pavlov]

What information were they trying to extract from trainees?

[Winehole23]

Yeah, destroying the tapes is a red line for me. That was done purely to protect the "reputation" of the CIA, such as it was.

Just following orders. Haspel presumed her superior, Mr Rodriguez, had done his due diligence and cleared it with counsel, and so passed on the order to destroy.

apparently there were two rounds of destruction:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/05/1...er-up-in-2002/

one wonders why there would be any urgency to destroy records if the activities therein were legal

Haspel is gone:

[Winehole23]

There is one outstanding whistleblower complaint against Haspel's CIA

[DOJ prosecutor Mark]McConnell had uncovered what he described as a “criminal conspiracy” perpetrated by the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. Every year, entries in the Helios database lead to hundreds of drug busts, which lead to prosecutions in American courts. The entries are typically submitted to Helios by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the F.B.I., and a division of the Department of Homeland Security. But McConnell had learned that more than a hundred entries in the database that were labelled as originating from F.B.I. investigations were actually from a secret C.I.A. surveillance program. He realized that C.I.A. officers and F.B.I. agents, in violation of federal law and Department of Justice guidelines, had concealed the information’s origins from federal prosecutors, leaving judges and defense lawyers in the dark. Critics call such concealment “intelligence laundering.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...whistle-blower

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

plus retaliation against the whistleblower