...Human rights advocates, while never enamored with Mr. Tillerson, expressed alarm at Mr. Pompeo’s elevation. They were even more alarmed that Mr. Pompeo’s deputy at the C.I.A., Gina Haspel, had been named to replace him, given her role in coercive interrogations of terrorism suspects in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The American Civil Liberties Union called Ms. Haspel the “central figure in one of the most illegal and shameful chapters in modern American history.”

Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement that “Gina Haspel should be prosecuted, not promoted.” ...

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