Between October and December 2002 , Haspel was assigned to oversee a secret CIA prison in Thailand Detention Site GREEN , code-named Cat 's Eye , that housed persons suspected of involvement in Al-Qaeda . The prison was part of the US government 's extraordinary rendition program after the September 11 attacks , and used " enhanced interrogation techniques " such as waterboarding that are widely considered to be torture , although those methods were deemed legal at the time by agency lawyers . According to a former senior CIA official , Haspel arrived as station chief after the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah but was chief during the waterboarding of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Gina Haspel