More media LIES: Trump’s pick of Gina Haspel, first woman to head the CIA, was NOT involved in torturing terror suspect

In February 2017, ProPublica reported on Haspel’s career at the CIA during the George W. Bush administration, when she ran a clandestine prison in Thailand, overseeing the waterboarding of detainees and pushed senior officers to destroy evidence of the torture.
The investigative news outlet incorrectly reported that she oversaw the black site when al Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded there 83 times, and that she privately mocked the prisoner.

Fortunately, ProPublica, which is decidedly Left-leaning to be sure, is at least honest enough to admit that on this particular story, they got their facts wrong.

In a correction story on Friday, Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief, noted:
The story said that Haspel, a career CIA officer who President Trump has nominated to be the next director of central intelligence, oversaw the clandestine base where Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding and other coercive interrogation methods that are widely seen as torture. The story also said she mocked the prisoner’s suffering in a private conversation. Neither of these assertions is correct and we retract them. It is now clear that Haspel did not take charge of the base until after the interrogation of Zubaydah ended.