The Senate just confirmed Gina Haspel and some Dems helped. Both parties overwhelmingly support illegal wars, selling arms to Saudi Arabia and increased military spending. Why would you think confirming a torturer would be a bridge too far? C'mon people, they are the bridge! pic.twitter.com/GUm2fASX2Y

— Tim Black (@RealTimBlack) May 17, 2018

Great point, nigger.

I still think they should have made her Attorney General so she could torture immigrants.

RT:

Gina Haspel is the new director of the CIA, after getting confirmed in the US Senate. Several Democrats crossed the aisle and gave her the green light, despite objecting to Haspel’s role in the CIA’s torture program.

The final vote was 53 in favor and 45 opposed.

Haspel’s road to the confirmation was intense, with the Senate Intelligence Committee grilling her about running a controversial black site in Thailand during the era of extraordinary renditions and enhanced interrogation of suspected terrorists under President George W. Bush. She was also asked about a her role in destroying some 90 tapes evidencing torture of detainees.

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Yet, probably understanding she needs to win the lawmakers, Haspel promised to be good in the future. She wrote a letter to the committee’s ranking member, Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), in which she said she wouldn’t torture again, and said the CIA should not have carried out its torture program.

I don’t really give a shit about torturing Moslems, or anyone really.

I mean, it’s obviously distasteful, but whatever – it’s happened for a very long time and isn’t going to stop happening soon.

The part that frustrates me is that ZOG claims this moral authority over the whole world, while invading countries, slaughtering people, sending them to torture black sites. It’s just all so dishonest and slimy to talk about a “moral imperative” to fight Russia or Assad or sanction Uganda for banning gay rights while being the masters of torture.

Anyway – separate issue. The real issue is that this woman has bipartisan support, which means she must be awful. I think it’s likely that the whole torture hysteria was to distract from how horrible she is in other areas.

And let’s be real here: all women with political ambition are psychotic and deranged.

She is childless, by the way.

No big surprise there.

This is the kind of leadership we need – or is it?

When I learned that Trump was pushing for a torturer to be the next head of the CIA, I imagined something like this:

And I thought: BASED.

But then I learned it was actually a woman. So my mental picture changed to this:

Uh, okay, that’s still kinda cool, I guess.

Unfortunately, my fantasies were quickly crushed by cold, sobering reality:

We’ve just made a huge mistake.

Are we supposed to believe this bitch was tearing out Moslem fingernails? Because I sure as hell don’t believe it.

Well, I guess it might be true, I dunno.

Needless to say, I have a bad feeling about putting another childless cat lady in charge of anything.

[Note: Unless her name is Ann Coulter, that is.]
[Note 2: There is no evidence that Ann Coulter has ever owned a cat afaik.]

Washington Post:

Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role in the interrogation of terrorist suspects could prevent her confirmation by the Senate, according to four senior U.S. officials.

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. She was summoned to the White House on Friday for a meeting on her history in the CIA’s controversial interrogation program — which employed techniques such as waterboarding that are widely seen as torture — and signaled that she was going to withdraw her nomination. She then returned to CIA headquarters, the officials said.

Wow, can’t even face the fact that she’s been torturing Hajis all these years. That’s definitely a bad start.

If she’d been like, “yeah I waterboarded those ragheads, you gonna cry?” I’d be feeling a lot better about her candidacy.

I mean, look at Crowder. He actually seems to be enjoying himself here. This doesn’t seem like very hardcore torture tbh.

Taken aback at her stance, senior White House aides, including legislative affairs head Marc Short and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, rushed to Langley, Va., to meet with Haspel at her office late Friday afternoon. Discussions stretched several hours, officials said, and the White House was not entirely sure she would stick with her nomination until Saturday afternoon, according to the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Are we really going to put up someone who can’t even take a little heat to be the director of our foreign intelligence service?

This is nuts.

Her flaking like that should have been an immediate red flag that she’s not cut out for the job. I mean, beyond the fact that she’s a woman, that is.

So, uh, is this guy still available for the job? Because I want this guy.

I don’t know anything about this man. But somebody needs to track him down and offer him the job.