Media trying to harpoon new CIA nominee by labeling her 'controversial'

No one is making a serious case that Gina Haspel is not well-qualified or well-prepared to lead the CIA. She's got the experience, the credentials and the confidence of the people who will work for her. But the media don't like it when the United States does what it has to do to protect its interests against bad actors, at least if that means inflicting any price on said bad actors for threatening to hurt us or for actually doing so. It seems like ancient history now, but in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the nation signaled to the Bush Administration that it was ready to do whatever was necessary to terrorists and their enablers in order to stop future attacks. So the Bush team did so - waterboarding, indefinite detention at Gitmo and diversion to "black sites" where they couldn't call anyone for help or report what was being done to them.