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of Ms. Haspel, now This article is by Mark Landler, Maggie Haberman and Gardiner Harris. WASHINGTON - President Trump ousted his secretary of 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 wil

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

on Lead State Dept. By ADAM GOLDMAN WASHINGTON - Just over a year after the Sept. 1l attacks, the C.I.A. dispatched l 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 waterboarded Qaeda suspect thr

tractors in the frantic hunt for the conspirators waterboarded 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 willingnes

es Secretary Tom Price was forced to resign in September 2017 due to excessive use of private charter jets and military aircraft, and Trump replaced Tillerson as Secretary of State with Mike Pompeo in March 2018 over disagreements on foreign policy.1446X43n In 2018, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Inte

n (4561[6571 Milky insisted that he should be consulted about any military orders from Trump, including the use of nuclear wea ns, and he instructed Haspel and NSA director Paul Nakasone to monitor developments closely. 6 8 6 2021 Capitol attack INcittrAC. VicurtNCE - DEsTROCTWE 1:SCHIWIDOR. On Janua

pporters into positions of power at the Pentagon after the November 2020 election, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Mill and CIA director Gina Haspel became concerned about the threat of a possible coup attempt or military action against China or Iran (4561[6571 Milky insisted that he should be c

ought up the possibility of firing everybody. Should I fire Bannon? Should I fire Reince? Should I fire McMaster? Should I fire Spicer? Should I fire Tillerson? This ritual was, everyone understood, more a pretext to a discussion of the power he held than it was, strictly, about personnel decisions. Still, i

dy with foreign policy stature and an international network had been put in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020053 place—even the new secretary of state designate, Rex Tillerson, had no real experience in foreign policy. To bewildered foreign secretaries, it seemed logical to see the presidentelect’s son-in-law as a figure of

ned and festered in the president’s mind, Kushner and Bannon went out to CIA headquarters in Langley to meet with Mike Pompeo and his deputy director Gina Haspel to check it out. A few days later, the CIA opaquely reported back that the information was not correct; it was a “miscommunication.” OOK Ok Politic