Boudchar writes: "I was abducted from exile in Southeast Asia and secretly jailed in one of Libya's worst dungeons. But the worst torture of my life wasn't done to me by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's thugs. It was done in Thailand at the hands of the C.I.A."
Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency. As a C.I.A. officer she ran a "black site" in Thailand. (photo: Shawn Thew/EPA)
09 May 18
In 2004, Ms. Boudchar was held at a secret detention site in Thailand, where she was tortured.
was abducted from exile in Southeast Asia and secretly jailed in one of Libya’s worst dungeons. But the worst torture of my life wasn’t done to me by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s thugs. It was done in Thailand at the hands of the C.I.A.
It was March 2004. During this nightmare — my detention and “rendition” to Libya — I was pregnant. Shortly afterward, I gave birth. After what the C.I.A. did to me, my baby weighed four pounds.
Now I hear that Gina Haspel, who as a C.I.A. officer ran a black site in Thailand in 2002 that sounds like the one where I was tortured, has been chosen to lead the whole agency. On Wednesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee will question her to decide whether she is fit to be director.
