Haspel's tenure at the CIA, where she serves as deputy director, has been tied to its history of using interrogation techniques such as waterboarding on terrorism suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. At one point, Haspel was in charge of a "black site" prison where such measures - often referred to by critics as torture - were used. Haspel is also part of a group of CIA officials who were involved in the decision to destroy videotaped evidence of some of the interrogation sessions with detainees.