WASHINGTON — President Trump’s nominee to be CIA director will fully explain what her role was in the agency’s use of harsh interrogation practices on terror suspects after 9/11, the top US intelligence chief said Wednesday.

Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel will face tough questions about her activities with the interrogation program, which critics call one of the darkest chapters in the agency’s history.

In the run-up to her confirmation hearing and a full Senate vote on her nomination, lawmakers are asking the CIA to declassify information about her 30-plus-year, mostly undercover career at the CIA.

After Trump chose Haspel to be the next director of the CIA, details were leaked about her time as chief of base of a secret prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded after 9/11. Haspel also drafted a memo that called for the destruction of 92 videotapes of interrogation sessions. Their destruction, ordered by a CIA official in 2005, prompted a lengthy Justice Department investigation that ended without charges.

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