Up to her eyeballs
Oops, Trump’s pick to replace Pompeo at the CIA was involved in torture.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday condemned President Trump’s decision to nominate Gina Haspel to become the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), saying she was involved in “one of darkest chapters in American history.”
He put out a statement saying she needs to explain her position on torture.
Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration “squandered precious moral authority” to get intelligence, McCain said.
Haspel joined the CIA in 1985 and faced scrutiny for her role surrounding waterboarding and other interrogation techniques used on detainees at a secret CIA prison in Thailand in 2002.
The American Civil Liberties Union said Haspel was “up to her eyeballs in torture, both in running a secret torture prison in Thailand and carrying out an order to cover up torture crimes by destroying videotapes.”
Progressive foreign policy groups are fighting back against her nomination, saying her direct role in the torture program should “disqualify her” from the position.
Trump, on the other hand, is a big fan of torture as long as we’re the ones doing it.
Torture might be the one issue that John McCain cares enough about to actually stand up to this president rather than just posture as usual. I sure hope so.
The difference between John McCain and Trump is that John McCain actually understands the brutality of torture. Trump only understands that McCain “got himself captured”.
Oh, be fair, iknklast; bone spurs really hurt. :-)