Oppose the nomination of torture leader Gina Haspel as CIA Director.\u00a0 This is a crucial time to act — there is finally a debate about the U.S.’ post-9\/11 torture program!<\/p>\n
Suggested action steps:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n 1)\u00a0Call Sen. Burr and Sen. Tillis<\/strong>\u00a0to oppose Haspel’s confirmation.\u00a0 Torturers should not be promoted!\u00a0 Burr has expressed support for her; Tillis’ position is not yet public.<\/p>\n Burr: \u00a0\u00a0(202) 224-3154<\/a>,\u00a0 Email:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.burr.senate.gov\/contact\/email<\/a><\/p>\n Tillis: \u00a0\u00a0(202) 224-6342<\/a>,<\/p>\n Email:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.tillis.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/email-me<\/a><\/p>\n 2)\u00a0Contact Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Stein.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Say the State of North Carolina can positively affect the national torture debate by facing up to our role in torture.\u00a0 Cooper should make a public statement!\u00a0 Stein should investigate.\u00a0 It\u2019s more important than ever to acknowledge our role and make sure it never happens again.<\/em>\u00a0 North Carolina-based Aero Contractors transported at least one prisoner to be tortured at the black site run by Gina Haspel.\u00a0 Altogether, Aero transported at least 49 prisoners for the CIA to secret detention and torture.<\/p>\n Gov. Cooper<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jenni\u00a0Owen — Policy Director, NC Office of the Governor<\/p>\n Phone: \u00a0(919) 814-2000<\/a><\/p>\n Email: \u00a0\u00a0Jenni.Owen@nc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter:\u00a0\u00a0@NC_Governor<\/p>\n <\/u>AG Stein<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jasmine\u00a0S.\u00a0McGhee — Director, Public Protection Section and Special Deputy Attorney General<\/p>\n Phone:\u00a0(919) 716-6781<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n Email: \u00a0jmcghee@ncdoj.gov<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter:\u00a0\u00a0@NCAGO<\/p>\n 3)\u00a0Write a letter to the editor<\/strong>\u00a0opposing Haspel’s nomination.\u00a0 Make the point\u00a0that transparency and accountability here in North Carolina can prevent future U.S. torture.<\/p>\n 4)\u00a0Donate to the NC Commission of Inquiry on Torture<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to push for transparency and accountability for North Carolina\u2019s role in torture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n BACKGROUND AND RESOURCES<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Gina Haspel, the Deputy CIA Director, has been nominated to head the agency.\u00a0 She was one of the top two managers of the CIA’s interrogation and torture program when it was secretly detaining prisoners at overseas “black sites” and subjecting them to vicious beatings, repeated mock drowning, prolonged sleep deprivation, painful stress positions, prolonged nudity, threats to rape family members, confinement in small boxes, and more.<\/p>\n In 2002, Haspel ran the CIA’s black site in Thailand while prisoners were being tortured there.\u00a0 She and Jose Rodriguez were the staunchest advocates for destroying the CIA’s video tapes of its Thai torture sessions.\u00a0\u00a0She drafted the 2005 memo ordering this destruction of evidence, even though she and Rodriguez had been instructed to preserve the material as possible evidence in an investigation.<\/p>\n Torturers should get jail terms, not promotions!\u00a0 It is an outrage that Gina Haspel, who as the ACLU says is “up to her eyeballs in torture,” should be promoted to the top job in the CIA.\u00a0 Haspel’s torture record should be declassified and released to the public, along with the rest of the Senate Torture Report.<\/p>\n Aero Contractors of Smithfield, NC, flew at least 49 prisoners for the CIA, including at least 34 to and from the black sites.\u00a0\u00a0This includes Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, whom it hauled to the Thai black site while Haspel was running it.\u00a0 Al-Nashiri was\u00a0kept naked and shackled, and was threatened with sodomy, and with the arrest and rape of his family. He was repeatedly waterboarded.<\/p>\n North Carolina is in a good position to oppose the promotion of torturers by leading the way in transparency and accountability.\u00a0 The State of North Carolina should acknowledge its role in the torture overseen by Haspel.\u00a0 The State should persuade Johnston County to investigate Aero Contractors and bar torture-related flights from Johnston County Airport or other public airports.<\/p>\n New York Times:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/13\/us\/politics\/gina-haspel-cia-director-nominee-trump-torture-waterboarding.html<\/a><\/p>\n Alberto Mora:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/03\/15\/gina-haspel-is-a-torturer-thats-all-the-senate-needs-to-know-217641<\/a><\/p>\n Human Rights First Backgrounder:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/resource\/backgrounder-gina-haspel-nominee-cia-director<\/a><\/p>\n Joseph Margulies:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/time.com\/5199408\/abu-zubaydah-lawyer-gina-haspel\/<\/a><\/p>\n Chris Anders, ACLU:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/executive-branch\/what-senate-needs-know-about-gina-haspel<\/a><\/p>\n