Throwing his backing behind his nominee for CIA Director Gina Haspel, President Trump expressed annoyance at growing criticism about her role in past CIA torture of detainees. Trump says Democrats don’t like her because she was “too tough on terrorists.”
Haspel’s role in the coordination of torture has fueled a lot of questions from lawmakers in both parties. That President Trump is comfortable with this is unsurprising, as he has often publicly expressed support for torture.
Trump’s pro-torture stance likely makes concerns about Haspel’s morality much more serious. Haspel has promised not to bring back previous “interrogation” programs that involved torturing detainees at black sites.
Opponents say that Haspel’s history of ties to torture would both make her unsuitable to lead the CIA, and also warn that her approval would send a negative signal to the world about America’s stance on its torture in the past decade.
Haspel is intended to replace Mike Pompeo, who was promoted to the Secretary of State from the CIA directorship.
That this corrupt wench has the nerve to still be around just says a lot of the moral condition of the establishment. The claim that she’s “offered to withdraw her nomination” (did she nominate herself?) comes pretty late. But as always, especially since the dark W Bush days onward, the scum gets promoted and rewarded, instead of being sent to Gitmo where they belong.
Haspel should be careful about promising not to bring back previous interrogation programs since the Donald has made it known that he’s up for “much worse than waterboarding” and he still wants to refill gitmo. She might not be sick enough for Trump.
Trump’s just a figurehead, mate, it’s the Trotskyists aka neocons who want to refill Gitmo and are up to much worse tortures than simply waterboarding. Gina Haspel should be careful not to bring back previous interrogation programs, since the Trotskyists are virulent sadists, and Haspel just may not be sick enough for them.
Trump said those things on the campaign trail. Stop blaming everything Trump does on the “Trotskyists”. He also said he was going to get out of the Iran deal on the campaign trail and he did just that today. Did the “Trotskyists make him do that also?