McCain Blasts CIA Nominee Gina Haspel: Her Refusal To Acknowledge The Immorality Of Torture Is...

[Soph0571]

...Disqualifying

“Like many Americans, I understand the urgency that drove the decision to resort to so-called enhanced interrogation methods after our country was attacked. I know that those who used enhanced interrogation methods and those who approved them wanted to protect Americans from harm. I appreciate their dilemma and the strain of their duty. But as I have argued many times, the methods we employ to keep our nation safe must be as right and just as the values we aspire to live up to and promote in the world.

“I believe Gina Haspel is a patriot who loves our country and has devoted her professional life to its service and defense. However, Ms. Haspel’s role in overseeing the use of torture by Americans is disturbing. Her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying. I believe the Senate should exercise its duty of advice and consent and reject this nomination.”

[link:http://www.joemygod.com/2018/05/10/mccain-blasts-cia-nominee-gina-haspel-her-refusal-to-acknowledge-immorality-of-torture-is-disqualifying/|

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I noticed that her insistence that the interrogation methods used were not illegal at the time

did not include any judgment about the morality of those methods. There can be a lot of difference, IMO, between what is legal and what is moral.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Yes, and it also cuts another way.

Some of the things that are illegal in this country are policed in an immoral way. Sometimes the moral thing to do is to look the other way.

[Solly Mack]

3. "a patriot"

alrighty then.