Avril Haines; an expert in “Torture” now Chairs the highest Intelligence Office in America!
As Director of National Intelligence Services, Avril Haynes became the first woman in American history to take a very important position, after a career full of controversy, positions and a journey that needs explanation, paving the way for her own strategy within the American administration. On January 21, 2021, the Senate approved the appointment of the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, to her position, based on the nomination of new President Joe Biden.Former National Security Agency attorney Susan Hennessy said that choosing "Hines for this position shows that Biden recognizes the need to regain individuals' confidence in the intelligence community, and to respect bipartisan oversight of the Congress, after the National Intelligence experienced a difficult and harsh experience during the era of former President Donald Trump."
Tough Childhood
Haynes was born on August 29, 1969, in Manhattan in New York City, into a prestigious family, where her father, Thomas, was a professor of biochemistry, and he helped in founding the New York University School of Medicine, where he held the position of the head of Department of Biochemistry.As for her mother, Adrian Rabin, who belongs to the Jewish religion, worked as an artist and painter, and it is reported that she was the first shock in Haynes' life, when she had tuberculosis and died, when Haynes had not yet reached the age of 15 years. The accident really hurt her, and had a negative impact on her personality and her life.Haynes attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan, and the school was the best public high school in the United States.
After her graduation, she traveled to Japan for a year and joined Kodokan (the headquarters of the judo community around the world), in Tokyo.In 1988, Haynes enrolled at the University of Chicago, to study in the Department of Advanced Physics, and during her studies she worked in the repair of automobile engines in a mechanic workshop, and in 1991 she received flying training in New Jersey, and there she met her future husband David Davigie, and a year later she graduated from the university, holding the Bachelor's degree in advanced physics.
The most difficult stage in Haynes' youth, when she moved with her husband to Baltimore, Maryland to be a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, but she left, and bought a pub by bidding with her husband, and they turned it into a bookstore site, and a separate coffee shop.In the library, she presented a number of literary readings, including "erotica" (pornographic) readings, which sparked controversy years later, when she was appointed by former President Barack Obama to be the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency.In 1998, Haynes returned to complete her studies again, where she joined the Law Center of Georgetown University, where she obtained her PhD in Law in 2001.
Her Career
In 2001, Haynes landed her first public sector job, with her appointment as a legal officer at the Hague Conference on International Law, and in 2006 she worked for the Legal Advice Office of the US State Department, and later in the Office of Political and Military Affairs. 2008 witnessed a big shift in Haynes' life when she worked on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as the representative chief advisor to the Democratic majority in the Senate, and the most important point related to this part was that she worked under the Biden administration (at the time), and began her career with the man who would become president of the United States years later.Heins was progressing in her career, and in 2010 she became Assistant Vice President and Deputy National Security Adviser to the President at the White House.
In August 2013, she was chosen as a representative director of Central Intelligence, then a representative national security advisor in 2015. She was the first woman to hold the two positions, which are private, as the office of the representative director of intelligence is not subject to the authority of the Senate.
Black Marks
Haynes' work was criticized by human rights defenders during her work at the CIA and her role in the drone attack program adopted by the Obama administration was described as terrible, when international human rights organizations say that it has "caused the death of hundreds of civilians."
The accusations also continued with the CIA's use of horrific methods of torture or what it called "advanced interrogation techniques" that had been adopted since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and continued for many years, and several defendants were killed under the name of "terrorism."With regard to "targeted killings" without a pilot, the American Union of Civil Liberties strongly criticized Obama's policy on killing with these drones not respecting international human rights standards, and this was during the email leak of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign supporting Hillary Clinton, Haynes was among the "accused team".
After Hillary's defeat, Haynes joined directly the bipartisan Committee on Military, National and Public Service, which was created by Congress to develop recommendations to inspire more Americans, especially young adults, to participate in public service and review the selective military service process.The other negative point Hines was involved in was the year 2018 when she endorsed Trump's nomination, for Gina Haspel as director of the CIA, a nomination that sparked widespread controversy at the time, for the black file that Hesbel owned, especially her participation in the secret CIA torture sites between the two years of 2002 and 2003.Haspel has admitted her role in helping to destroy the horrific torture videos by the agency's investigators. Heinz’s support for Haspel to be at the helm of the system has raised many questions about her policy and process.
Leader of Orchestra
To know how important the position that Heines occupies, the American newspaper "Washington Post" talked on November 23, 2020, about her and the seriousness of her new position in a report entitled "Biden nominates Haines as Director of National Intelligence. She will be the first woman to hold this position."The newspaper said: "The real purpose of the position of Director of National Intelligence is to have a person who plays the role of an effective orchestra leader for 17 intelligence agencies, which fall within the scope of their competencies, so that their outputs are like a harmonious symphony and not a discordant one."She added that "Haines's job with the new administrations will be easier, as she knows them all."The American newspaper confirmed that "Biden's appointment of Haines to the position of Director of National Intelligence in itself represents a historic shift, as she is the first woman to hold the highest intelligence position in the country."
She also stated that "it will be a shift in the direction of stability, as Biden is appointing an expert in national security affairs, who is expected to restore strictness and independence to a position that was surrounded by political intrigue and mismanagement during the Trump era."
The report added that "the first task of Heinz should be to restore the role of the Director of National Intelligence as a non-politicized provider of intelligence work and director of the national intelligence community with its various branches."The Washington Post cited Lisa Monaco, who worked as a domestic security advisor in the Obama administration, about Haynes when she said: "She will be firmly committed to the principle that the best service we provide to policymakers is to follow comprehensive analysis of what is happening without attempting to deceive or trick."It is reported that Trump used the position of the Director of National Intelligence as a powerful arm against his opponents, and considered it a way to settle accounts with agencies that he did not trust in their work and that he was often blamed for questioning the legitimacy of his election.It was John Ratcliffe, a former Republican congressman and a prominent Trump loyalist who has come under heavy criticism from intelligence officers, who heads the National Intelligence Service and now Hines is holding this position , in a process expected to be different.
