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77LLERSON OUSTED
AS TRUMP SILENCES
DISSENT IN CABINET
Pick for CLA. Chief
Ran Secret Prison
By ADAM GOLDMAN
WASHINGTON — Just over a
year after the Sept. 11 attacks, the
C.I.A. dispatched the veteran
clandestine officer Gina Haspel to
oversee a secret prison in Thai-
land. Shortly after, agency con-
tractors in the frantic hunt for the
conspirators waterhoarded a
Qaeda suspect three times and
subjected him to brutal interroga-
tion techniques.
Ms. Haspel's time running the
prison, code-named Cat's Eye, be-
gan her deep involvement in the
agency's counterterrorism opera-
tions and showed her willingness
to take part in the agency's rendi-
tion, detention and interrogation
program, which shaped her ca-
reer. She was a rising star until
that dark chapter in C.I.A. history
began to emerge publicly.
But under President Trump,
her fortunes
changed, and
on Tuesday, he
announced that
he intended to
name her direc-
tor of the C.I.A.
With his ele-
vation of Ms.
Haspelo now
Pornpeo Is Chosen to
Lead State Dept.
This article is by Mark Lanclier.
Maggie Haberman and Gardiner
Harris.
WASHINGTON — President
Trump ousted his secretary ot
state, Rex W. Tillerson, on Tues-
day, the most dramatic in a cas-
cade of personnel moves that sug-
gest Mr. Trump is determined to
surround himself with loyalists
more willing to reflect his "Amer-
ica First" views.
Mr. Trump announced he would
replace Mr. Tillerson with Mike
Pompeo, the C.I.A. director and
former Tea Party congressman,
who has cultivated a close rela-
tionship with the president and
has taken a harder line than Mr.
Tillerson on critical issues like
Iran and North Korea.
Mr. Tillerson's dismissal, on the
heels of Gary D. Cohn's resigna-
tion as Mr. Trump's chief eco-
nomic adviser after a dispute ovel
steel tariffs, pulls the Trump acl
ministration further out of the eel
nomic and foreign policy mai
stream and closer to the nation
ist ideas that animated
Trump's 2016 presidential c
paign.
It also suggests that after a
of chaotic on-the-iob traininl
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