Only a sick sadist thinks this is okay.
PeeBrain apparently loves the idea of torture. Oh, wait, redundant argument.
This makes me want to vomit…
Studies done on torturers found them not much different from “normal” people. It’s a 9-5 job. They have wives and kids, love them as do we. Gina was not doing the actual torturing, but she clearly is/was able to compartmentalize it, order the program, take credit for whatever benefit came of it. And that credit inured to her career ambitions. We can infer that internally she became known as tough, doing what had to be done, getting the job done — yada yada.
All that said, I doubt she’s a sadist, but she’s a careerist. She’ll burn in the 9th Ring with all her counterparts in fascist societies past and present.
If it ever comes to it, she’ll torture us “liberals” who are TPM groupies as enemies of the state.
Just. Following. Orders.
Perhaps as part of the confirmation process she should be water-boarded in front of the committee to be sure she is being truthful in her responses. I would expect her to have no objection to this.
“Nominees will say practically anything to get confirmed,” Sen. Ron
Wyden of Oregon, a Democratic member of the intelligence committee, said
in an interview. “I believe there is a significant amount of
information about the key period, from 2002 to 2007, which can be
declassified without compromising our country’s security.”
This is a long article, and that paragraph looks key. If Haspel’s supporters are confident about her integrity during that period, then why won’t they declassify that information?
Being a UK fan should be enough to not hire her.
Why are the worst fucktards from my state? McConnell, Pruitt, and now this chick. Geeeeeze! Apologies all the way around!
Wow did anyone read that whole article?
Could not. Horrendous.
Well I’m not giving myself any credit for being decent. I just thought, as I started reading the scrolled down to see how long, there is no way I’m going to spend the time reading this whole article. Always astounds me when an article on TMP is more than, just guessing, 400 words.
The guards, who were typically clad in black fatigues and balaclavas, tied him to a hospital gurney, an arrangement that turned out to be precarious. Nashiri was so slight that he nearly slid off as the gurney was tilted upward to let him clear the water from his sinuses. “We were concerned that he would fall off the gurney and get hurt,” Mitchell wrote. “We were all feeling uncomfortable.”
no comment
Elevating criminals to the highest ranks of our government so the rule of law becomes an personal choice…
This is T rump’s America.
She tortured people for no real reason?
Just the “fun” of it?
Gina should be at the Hague NOT in confirmation hearings.
As far as I’m concerned the only fit punishment for these people is life without the possibility of parole.
Now torturers are mainlined into our system, a result of the decisions during the Bush years.
From the article: “One factor complicating Haspel’s position is that her most prominent supporters include former agency officials who led an aggressive campaign to refute the Senate report, arguing anew that the interrogation methods they sanctioned were both necessary and effective.”
If she says that she would never authorize the use of torture again, the question would have to be why.
And, it doesn’t seem like there was much issue when it was happening. Under her command this happened: " A psychiatric expert, Sondra Crosby, called him “one of the most damaged victims of torture” she had ever examined." Him here is referring to terrorist al-Nashiri that was tortured at the CIA black site in Thailand.
Now excuse me, feeling sick.