Former CIA Chief Of Staff: Haspel Is ‘Full Steam Ahead’ For Senate Hearings

Former DOD and CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash says that CIA director nominee Gina Haspel is going “full steam ahead” into Wednesday’s confirmation hearings, despite her brief consideration of withdrawing.

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  1. We can only hope here, as has so often happened recently, that ETTD and she goes down in (tortured) flames as she so richly deserves.

    (I hope more comes out about the destruction of evidence on the torturing stuff… That gravels me almost more than anything else.)

  2. Only relevant question: Will she waterboard Trump to get the truth? Yes or no?

  3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/03/20/the-harsh-interrogations-of-al-qaeda-detainees-was-it-torture-and-did-it-help-find-bin-laden/?utm_term=.56f784179a43

    KSM

    “During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill treatment stop.”

    John Brennan

    “The Agency takes no position on whether intelligence obtained from detainees who were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques could have been obtained through other means or from other individuals. The answer to this question is and will forever remain unknowable.”

  4. The truth might slip out about the CIA during my interview. That could harm the CIA, so maybe I should withdraw.

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