(Alex Brandon | The Associated Press) In this May 9, 2018, file photo, CIA nominee Gina Haspel testifies during a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. The political schism in the Democratic Party is playing out in the vote for Haspel, as support from red-state senators facing re-election is bumping up against a more liberal flank eyeing potential 2020 presidential bids who reject of the nominee over the agency’s clouded history of torture.
Michael Hayden, former director of both the CIA and the National Security Agency, said that, “Haspel did nothing more and nothing less than what the nation and the agency asked her to do, and she did it well” (re: her allowing the use of torture techniques and then destroying the evidence during the Iraqi war).
“I vas önly followink orders!” Rings a bell! And we should trust someone who destroys the evidence as well? Gimme a break.
Matthew Proser, Salt Lake City