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==CIA torture coverup==
==CIA torture coverup==
In the spring of 2013, Obama nominated Haines to serve as Legal Adviser of the Department of State,<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/18/presidential-nominations-sent-senate</ref> but withdrew the nomination to appoint her as deputy director of the CIA, a position note requiring Senate confirmation.<ref>https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-12/world/39918735_1_brennan-s-haines-cia-s</ref> Haines replaced [[Michael Morell]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/us/cia-to-get-first-woman-in-no-2-job.html?_r=1&</ref> The office of the deputy director is not subject to Senate confirmation.
In 2015, the CIA illegally hacked the [[computers]] of the [[Senate Intelligence Committee]] to thwart the Committee’s investigation into the spy agency’s torture program. According to CIA [[whistleblower]] John Kiriakou, when discovered, Haines not only shielded the hackers from accountability but even awarded them the Career Intelligence Medal.
When the exhaustive 6,000-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture was finally complete, after five years of investigation and research, Haines took charge of redacting it, reducing the document to a 500-page, black-ink-smeared summary.<ref>https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/01/why-senators-must-reject-avril-haines-for-intelligence/</ref>
==Extrajudicial killings==
==Extrajudicial killings==