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===Avril Haines===
===Avril Haines===
{{See also|Crossfire Hurricane}}
{{See also|Crossfire Hurricane}}
In 2007, [[Avril 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]].
Although she had never worked at the [[CIA]], [[CCP]] connected director [[John Brennan]]<ref>Javers, Eamon (February 6, 2013). [https://www.cnbc.com/id/100440555 In Brennan's Private Sector Stint, a Chinese Connection]. ''CNBC''. Retrieved February 3, 2021.</ref> appointed Haines CIA Deputy Director, a position she held from 2013 to 2015. Haines authorized drone strikes in the greater [[Middle East]] on names from [[Obama]]'s kill list to carry out Brennan’s targeted extrajudicial assassinations of people from any country, including the [[United States]]. According to CIA [[whistleblower]] John Kiriakou, who exposed the CIA torture program, “It was Avril that decided whether it was [[legal]] to incinerate someone from the sky. We know that in almost all cases, she said it was legal to put these names on the kill list, and people were subsequently killed by drone, including American citizens.” 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>
Although she had never worked at the [[CIA]], [[CCP]] connected director [[John Brennan]]<ref>Javers, Eamon (February 6, 2013). [https://www.cnbc.com/id/100440555 In Brennan's Private Sector Stint, a Chinese Connection]. ''CNBC''. Retrieved February 3, 2021.</ref> appointed Haines CIA Deputy Director, a position she held from 2013 to 2015. Haines authorized drone strikes in the greater [[Middle East]] on names from [[Obama]]'s kill list to carry out Brennan’s targeted extrajudicial assassinations of people from any country, including the [[United States]]. According to CIA [[whistleblower]] John Kiriakou, who exposed the CIA torture program, “It was Avril that decided whether it was [[legal]] to incinerate someone from the sky. We know that in almost all cases, she said it was legal to put these names on the kill list, and people were subsequently killed by drone, including American citizens.” 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>