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How the CIA's secret torture program sparked a citizen-led public reckoning in North Carolina

  • Written by Alexandra Moore, Professor of Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
North Carolina Stop Torture Now advocacy group.djbiesack, CC BY-NC-SA

President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, is reported to have overseen a U.S. site in Thailand where torture of a suspected terrorist took place. Later she allegedly helped destroy evidence of torture.

Her nomination, pending congressional approval, is...

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