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Line 38: − − ==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> Line 53:
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==Joe Biden==
==Joe Biden==
In 2007, Haines joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Majority deputy chief counsel. Joe Biden was then chairman. When Biden became Vice President, Haines followed him to the White House, working from 2010 to 2013 as the president’s top lawyer on the [[National Security Council]].
In 2007, Haines joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Majority deputy chief counsel. Joe Biden was then chairman. When Biden became Vice President, Haines followed him to the White House, working from 2010 to 2013 as the president’s top lawyer on the [[National Security Council]].
==Extrajudicial killings==
==Extrajudicial killings==
Kiriakou said she regularly approved the drone bombings that killed not only suspected terrorists but also entire families, including children, who died as collateral damage.<ref>Friedersdorf, Conor (March 14, 2016). [https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/473541/ The Obama Administration's Drone-Strike Dissembling]. ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved February 3, 2021.</ref>
Kiriakou said she regularly approved the drone bombings that killed not only suspected terrorists but also entire families, including children, who died as collateral damage.<ref>Friedersdorf, Conor (March 14, 2016). [https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/473541/ The Obama Administration's Drone-Strike Dissembling]. ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved February 3, 2021.</ref>
==CIA torture coverup==
[[File:Feinstein.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Sen. Diane Feinstein, Chair of the Intelligence Committee entrusted with oversight of CIA was hacked by Brennan's CIA looking into Brennan and CIA use of torture. This egregious abuse of power by the Obama Executive branch was papered over by the Democrats in the administration and Senate by having Brennan offer Feinstein an apology. No one was prosecuted. No one went to jail. No reforms were initiated or proposed in Congress.]]
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>
==Crossfire Hurricane==
==Crossfire Hurricane==