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Jose Rodriguez, one of the masterminds behind the infamous George W. Bush torture and retention program, may be selected by the new administration to run the CIA, according to an influential law firm where Trump\u2019s major ally serves as a senior adviser.<\/p>\n
The prediction that Jose Rodriguez, a career intelligence officer and former head of CIA National Clandestine Service (NCS), may lead the CIA comes in a post-election memo<\/a>\u00a0published by Dentons, a multinational law and lobbying firm. The company is involved in delivering legal advice to the Trump campaign, according to the Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/a><\/div>\n Dentons\u2019 memo provides a detailed analysis of the 2016 election, as well as looking at the policy priorities of President-elect Trump and his potential cabinet options, including those of the intelligence community. While some posts list a variety of candidates, the CIA director\u2019s job has only one projected nominee \u2013 Jose Rodriguez.<\/p>\n Rodriguez joined the CIA in 1976 and quickly progressed through the ranks, serving as a field operative and station chief in a number of Latin American countries. In 2002, he was promoted to head of the agency\u2019s Counterterrorism Center, the CIA division which spearheaded the fight against Al-Qaeda and its affiliates.<\/p>\n About 136 individuals were detained without trial and subjected to torture in CIA black sites worldwide. According to a 2014 Senate inquiry, interrogation tactics included<\/a>\u00a0sleep deprivation during prolonged standing, rectal feeding, freezing to death, the use of insects as a means of torture, and, last but not least, waterboarding.<\/p>\n Rodriguez, who in 2004 was appointed chief of the NCS to oversee all human intelligence gathering by US agencies, defended the CIA practices, telling the New Yorker<\/a>\u00a0in a 2012 interview that they \u201cfell well short of what is torture.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He argued that the methods previously employed by Nazi and the Japanese secret services during WWII \u201chad the legal backing, but we had no moral qualms about doing this.\u201d<\/em> Torture and harsh treatment helped prevent \u201canother 9\/11\u201d<\/em> and gather \u201cvaluable intelligence,\u201d<\/em> the top CIA officer insisted in the interview.<\/p>\n In 2005, after the \u201cenhanced interrogation,\u201d<\/em> a euphemism for torture, was revealed by the media, Rodriguez played a key role in discarding evidence, destroying 92 tapes showing the waterboarding of suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is reported to have been waterboarded 183 times.<\/p>\n \u2018Everything…was a lie\u2019: Former CIA analyst, John Kiriakou on the agency deleting torture report<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n
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