CIA nominee offered to withdraw over interrogation program

Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, offered to withdraw her nomination amid concerns that a debate about an interrogation program would tarnish her reputation and that of the CIA, according to two senior administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity. The news was first reported Sunday by The Washington Post.

White House officials sought additional details Friday about Haspel’s involvement in the CIA’s defunct program of interrogating terror suspects after 9/11 as they prepared her for Wednesday’s confirmation hearing.