Gina Haspel: I Do Not Believe the President Would Ask Me to Restart the EI Program

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COLLINS: "So that’s a very good segue into a very important question. As a candidate President Trump repeatedly expressed his support for waterboarding, in fact, he said we should go beyond waterboarding. So if the CIA has a high value terrorism suspect in its custody and the president gave you a direct order to water board that suspect, what would you do?"
HASPEL: "Senator, I would advise — I do not believe the president would ask me to do that, but we have today in the U.S. Government other U.S. Government entities that conduct interrogations. DoD uses the army field manual and they conduct battlefield interrogations and CIA has incredible expertise it can bring to the table in support of those interrogations. The FBI has its authorities to conduct interrogations. And as you know, we have the high value interrogation group. So, you know, I would be — advise anyone who asked me about it that CIA is not the right place to conduct interrogations. We don’t have interrogators and we don’t have interrogation expertise."