President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, sought to withdraw her nomination on Friday amid concerns that details about her role in the agency’s torture program would sink the possibility of a successful confirmation, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

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The Post reported: “Haspel told the White House she was interested in stepping aside if it avoided the spectacle of a brutal confirmation hearing on Wednesday and potential damage to the CIA’s reputation and her own, the officials said.”

According to the Post, citing information from four senior U.S. officials, Hapsel indicated her position to the White House when she was summoned there for a meeting to discuss that history. She then headed back to her CIA office. Later on Friday, senior White House aides including legislative affairs head Marc Short and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders engaged in discussions with her there lasting “several hours.”

It was only Saturday when the White House learned she would be going through with the nomination.

“The takeaway for every United States Senator,” commented Faiz Shakir,  the ACLU’s national political director, “should be that they need a lot more information about Haspel than they’re currently getting.”