Guantanamo prisoner asks to give evidence on CIA boss

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks has asked for permission to give evidence to the US Senate on who should be the next director of the CIA. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2003, was waterboarded - subjected to simulated drowning - by CIA officers 183 times. Despite confessing to planning the 9/11 attacks, he has never been tried in court. A Senate Commitee questioned Mr Trump's CIA nominee, Gina Haspell, and her approval of the use of torture in the past is the major issue at those hearings.