The Torture Defender Quits At CIA

Great news. Following this devastating profile, Steve Kappes quits the CIA. Ackerman notes:

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.