By Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News
The online news site ProPublica said Thursday night that it had retracted part of an article alleging Gina Haspel, President Trump’s new choice to head the CIA, oversaw the waterboarding of an Al Qaeda suspect at a so-called agency “black site” in Thailand.
“We at ProPublica hold government officials responsible for their missteps, and we must be equally accountable,” editor-in-chief Stephen Engelberg said in a statement. “This error was particularly unfortunate because it muddied an important national debate about Haspel and the CIA’s recent history.
“To her, and to our readers, we can only apologize, correct the record and make certain that we do better in the future,” Engelberg added.
Correction: Trump’s pick to head the CIA did not oversee waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah https://t.co/3Pb9bbSvJz
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) March 15, 2018
Trump announced Tuesday that he had chosen Haspel to succeed Mike Pompeo, who is the president’s pick to replace ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Several senators, including some Republicans, have said that Haspel must give a full account of her involvement in the CIA’s interrogation program in the early days of the War on Terror.
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