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

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