<story><title>CIA new nominee director Gina Haspel ran a torture site and destroyed evidence</title><url>https://qz.com/1227879/who-is-gina-haspel-the-first-woman-nominated-to-run-the-cia-destroyed-evidence-of-us-torture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>The inevitable result of illegal activity going unpunished: normalization.&lt;p&gt;The Obama administration had eight years to do something about this and instead decided turn the other way. All we got was a mealy-mouthed admission that &amp;quot;we tortured some folks.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croon</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s impressive that we&amp;#x27;ve fallen so low that we&amp;#x27;re blaming the Obama administration for not fixing what the Bush administration did. I see it as normalization of the concept that you can&amp;#x27;t expect any rational action whatsoever from the GOP anymore.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Reading from comments, I should clarify. I totally agree with OP, I just find it incredibly sad.</text></comment>
<story><title>CIA new nominee director Gina Haspel ran a torture site and destroyed evidence</title><url>https://qz.com/1227879/who-is-gina-haspel-the-first-woman-nominated-to-run-the-cia-destroyed-evidence-of-us-torture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>The inevitable result of illegal activity going unpunished: normalization.&lt;p&gt;The Obama administration had eight years to do something about this and instead decided turn the other way. All we got was a mealy-mouthed admission that &amp;quot;we tortured some folks.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fein</author><text>Just as well:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Her then-boss Jose Rodriguez, the CIA’s director of operations for counterterrorism, signed off on the order.&lt;p&gt;But of course all the blame lies on Haspel...</text></comment>