THREAD: We fact-checked @realdonaldtrump's top CIA pick Gina Haspel’s Senate hearing today (1/11) 
Haspel faced tough questions about her oversight of waterboarding and role in the agency’s controversial decision to destroy video recordings of CIA interrogations (2/11)
At one point Haspel said, "CIA historically has not done interrogations." That didn’t sound quite right. (3/11)
Turns out, a Senate report from Dec 2014 explicitly mentions the historical roots of the CIA’s use of interrogation feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/… (4/11)
.@NSArchive’s John Prados told us: “It is poor history to say that the CIA never did interrogations. The manual cited in the Senate report was created for that purpose.” (5/11)
Prados cited Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko, who was interrogated “abusively enough” that the agency would later give him a cash payment. Here’s Nosenko’s 2008 @nytimes obit: nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/… (6/11)
A controversial chapter of Haspel’s career centers on the destruction of video recordings of CIA interrogations while the public increasingly fumed about the practice. (7/11)
Haspel defended the decision and told @SenFeinstein the tapes were wiped out to protect agents’ safety. (8/11)
But some CIA watchers — like @Ali_H_Soufan — pointed to a CIA email and suggested a less virtuous motive was at play: protecting the agency from reputational damage. (9/11)
.@NSArchive followed up with a tweet linking to the heavily-redacted email (10/11)
Read our story here: bit.ly/2K4LzWX (11/11)
