President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, who has come under fire for her involvement in enhanced interrogation practices, "is a patriot" who "did exactly what she was told to do," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Thursday.
CIA Deputy Director "Gina Haspel is a patriot, and she did exactly what she was told to do, and instructed by the highest legal authorities in the land that what she was doing was entirely within the law." Cornyn said on Fox News Thursday.
He added that Haspel shouldn’t be made the "fall person" for the controversial program.
“This idea of making her the fall person for this program that I know is controversial, I think is just a shame. She will be first woman director of the CIA and the first operations officer as opposed to a political appointee or an analyst in the past 40 years," Cornyn said.
"This is an enormously popular pick and she’ll do a great job," he concluded.
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