Haspel new boss of CIA

VETERAN spy Gina Haspel will become the first female director of the CIA after six Democrats joined Republicans in a Senate confirmation vote yesterday that overrode concerns about her role in the spy agency’s harsh interrogation program after 9/11.

The 54-45 vote split both parties and the margin was the closest for a CIA nominee in the nearly seven decades that a nod from the Senate has been required. Ms Haspel, who has spent most of her 33-year CIA career in undercover roles, is the first career operations officer to be confirmed since 1973.