Former CIA Director Michael Hayden: Feinstein too ‘emotional’ about CIA interrogation techniques

[kpete]

We are (were) ruled by the world's worst humans.

On "Fox News Sunday," Hayden cited comments Feinstein made last month in which she said she said declassifying the report "ensure that an un-American, brutal program of detention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted."

Hayden suggested Feinstein's emotions are getting the better of her.

"That sentence -- that motivation for the report -- may show deep, emotional feeling on the part of the senator, but I don't think it leads you to an objective report," Hayden said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/06/hayden-feinstein-too-emotional-about-cia-interrogation-techniques/
via:
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2014/04/hysteria.html#disqus_thread

[DURHAM D]

1. Slut shaming a U.S. Senator.

What a f*cking neanderthal... although there are some DUers who agree with this strategy.


Note: I mean people who post on DU but are not actually progressives, liberals or even Democrats.

[NightWatcher]

2. he went on to say, "you know how chicks get all weepy and shit"

[gratuitous]

3. Hayden mansplains crimes against humanity

Dear Mr. Hayden: Please consider the salubrious sequelae of shutting up more. And breathe a prayer of deepest gratitude to whatever deity you worship that you're not in prison.

[librechik]

4. Hayden is a fucking buffoon--he should be neutered.

not a typo.

[Octafish]

5. Turning up the Psy Ops

"Emotional" is like "Menstrual," right General?

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. I HAVE noticed misogyny is being used a lot by the Reich Wing.

Limbaugh tossed it out automatically for years, now it is visibly being used around issues of reproductive freedom, employment, etc and to attack women in office.
sounds SO 1960-ish.

[bemildred]

6. Hayden continues to show his roots in Cheneyism. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Hayden sounds like a guilty sexist fool

nt

[shraby]

8. I didn't like Hayden from the moment I first saw him..it gave me an uneasy

feeling that no good would come from him.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Unlike CIA thugs who don't get emotional when they torture or kill...or get a pass for doing so.

They sleep well, satisfied with their work.

[frylock]

10. she's positively hysterical over it

what a dick.

[G_j]

11. said the criminal... nt

[Solly Mack]

12. Fuck Hayden (on general principle). That said...

The release of any part of the report will not "ensure that an un-American, brutal program of detention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted."

Words on paper (torture is illegal/federal law/international law/customary law/principles of Nuremberg) didn't stop it the first time - and words on paper won't stop it from happening again. So no one should pretend the release of (portions of) the report will ensure anything.

And how un-American can it be if America (the government) did it?

That's just an attempt to distance the national brand (U.S.A! U.S.A!) from what its government did - but the U.S. government did it - and they got away with (so is impunity for war criminals the American way then?).

If torture is un-American even though America committed torture - then what is granting immunity to war criminals? Is that also un-American even though that's exactly what happened?

Saying torture is un-America implies it is something we wouldn't do. We could also insert the cowardly phrase "brutal program of detention and interrogation" for torture, as in - brutal program of detention and interrogation is un-American - yet America did it.

If America does it then it's not exactly un-American is it?

If torture is not in keeping with our ideals and beliefs but we did it anyway - then is immunity for war criminals in keeping with our ideals and beliefs?

[reformist2]

14. Is the CIA exempt from the Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, the UN Declaration of Human Rights?

These "tough talking" types who think the law is for sissies ought to be locked up like the law-breaking, jack-booted fascist thugs that they are.

[rustydog]

15. Well buddy, volunteer for Waterboarding to prove him wrong

Let us see if we can get you to admit you like kiddie porn and have a secret stash at the Bush ranch.
If waterboarding doesn't work, you'll be fine, you have nothing to worry about.

We can't make you say something that isn't true simply because we want you to admit something...right?

[WillyT]

16. Oh Boy... Here We Go...

& Rec !!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Another dog whistle

[Aerows]

18. When I think of "bleeding heart liberal"

Feinstein is about the last person that comes to mind.

[hobbit709]

19. Hayden should be waterboarded to find out just how "emotional"HE is.

[WillyT]

20. Kick !!!

[Rex]

21. Wow, playing the emotion card! These fuckwads must have nothing left in the tank!

That means KEEP PUSHING! There are now cracks in the wall. Hayden would be squealing like a PIG, if put under ANY of the various 'detention and interrogation' techniques used by the CIA...he would by CRYING LIKE A BABY FOR HIS RIGHTS within 5 nanoseconds!

FUCK HIM! Authoritarian scum just LOVES Foxnews...I wonder why?

[DefenseLawyer]

22. War criminals shouldn't be given a public forum

Other than testifying at their public trials, which is their 5th Amendment right.