“Vote for me and I won’t torture anybody.” Now there’s a winning slogan.
I hope they let Khalid Sheikh Mohammed offer his testimony, just to hear her defend his abominable, inhumane treatment.
We already know how she favors government “programs” — the bigger, more powerful, more intrusive the better.
What we want to know are her views about torturing human beings. Personally, I’d like to know why Republican conservatives are backing someone who evidently rejects fundamental religious principles.
Ms. Haspel, true or false?
John McCain wasn’t tortured by the Communist North Vietnamese; he was merely subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.”*
*Extra credit: When and where did the term “enhanced interrogation techniques” come from?
Promises , riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight . Roflmao .
“Vote for me and I won’t torture anybody.” Now there’s a winning slogan.
This is right up there with “I am not a witch.”
Haspel Promises To Not Restart Torture Program If Confirmed…
…she’ll just keep it going…
Yeah, right, like this (mal)administration has never lied to us about anything.
She and Spanky are probably rubbing their hands at re-opening the program and stuffing Gitmo full of women and children whose only crime is to try to fly their violence-ridden homelands looking for safety.
Those religious “principles” are all smoke and mirrors – which is why they vociferously tout “the sanctity of life” and in the next breath scream for the death penalty. Those “principles” are applied randomly and tribally – only when you’re “one of us” do they matter. Everybody else can just f**k off and die.
She showed no fortitude in rejecting illegal orders before. Why would she behave differently now under pressure?
“Having served in that tumultuous time, I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership, CIA will not restart such a detention and interrogation program.”
“Having served in that tumultuous time, I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership, CIA will not restart such a detention and interrogation program. If ordered to do so by the President I will refuse. If he insists after my refusal I will resign.”
Unless we hear the latter her promise is bullshit.
So how about starting up a slightly different program, where the torturers wear red balaclavas instead of black? That would be OK, right?
Just chain prisoners to a chair and force them to watch the entire Adam Sandler movie catalog on a continuous loop. If they last more than a day or two before cracking they’re not of this world.
Regardless or what Haspel does, her nomination sends the wrong message. That is, “go along with these politicians, no matter how illegal, immoral, unethical or inhuman and you will be rewarded in your career.” I am not against forgiving people, by the by, but they have to explain why they are against torture. That would give insight to whether this opens up a new chapter in the future or has closed this beastly chapter for final.
Gina Haspel, Ball Buster, Literally!
Her pledge is meaningless. If confirmed she’ll work for a President who loves torture. He’ll probably watch the tapes.
Haspel Promises To Not Restart Torture Program If Confirmed
Haspel, giggling: “Well, we never really stopped it.”
Haspel says in the excerpts. “Having served in that tumultuous time, I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership, CIA will not restart such a detention and interrogation program.”
That tumultuous time dear was because of republicans and the bush family’s connections to the bin ladens way back when russian was stuck in afghanistan. So you did it then and you will do it again if told to by another republican president.
You already are qualified by some standards, you got lying down pat from the get go and a lot of practice at torture as most republicans do.
There is an OLD Jimmy Cagney comedy called One, Two, Three: the husband of his boss’s daughter is coerced by the Russians into signing a false confession by making him listen to It Was A Teeny-Weeny Itsy-Bitsy Yellow Polka Dot Bikini over and over and OVER again. “Then” they punched a new hole in the record and played it kind of side-ways and he screamed I CONFESS.
I think Adam Sandler is extreme torture.
Utterly hollow commitment. It’s quite clear that she’d be fine with starting an identical program while calling it “new”.
How about shutting down the one the American people have been going through
since Nov. 2016 ? ? …