<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Torture Defender Quits At&nbsp;CIA]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[
<p>Great news. Following this <a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/15265.html">devastating profile</a>, Steve Kappes <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/14/AR2010041403134.html">quits the CIA</a>. Ackerman <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/82203/powerful-steve-kappes-will-retire-as-cias-deputy-director">notes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Further underscoring the perception that [his torture legacy is] why Kappes is stepping down is his replacement: Michael Morell, a veteran not of the agency’s operations directorate — where anyone involved in torture would have worked, if not in the director’s office — but the intelligence analysis directorate.</p></blockquote>
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