Sen. John McCain (R- AZ) sent a letter to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and President Trump’s nominee to be CIA Director, Gina Haspel, asking her to explain her position on torture and her ties with programs that used “enhanced interrogation techniques” during her time with the CIA.

McCain, who experienced torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, asked Haspel for “a detailed account of your role in the CIA’s detention and interrogation program between 2001 and 2009, including while you were deployed abroad at so-called ‘black sites’ or other locations where detainees were held in U.S. custody and subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

“Over the course of your career with the intelligence community, you have served in positions of responsibility that have intersected with the CIA’s program of so-called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’” he wrote. 

“These techniques included the practice of waterboarding, forced nudity and humiliation, facial and abdominal slapping, dietary manipulation, stress positions, cramped confinement, striking, and more than 48 hours of sleep deprivation,” McCain continued. “We now know that these techniques not only failed to deliver actionable intelligence, but actually produced false and misleading information.”