Former CIA Head Compares Trump's Border Separation Policy to Nazi Germany

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediate



by Aidan McLaughlin | 5:32 pm, June 16th, 2018

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden issued a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump‘s policy of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border on Saturday.

Hayden, a CNN contributor who served as CIA director under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, posted a photo of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp on Twitter along with the caption, “Other governments have separated mothers and children.”

Link to tweet

The Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their families was first weighed when John Kelly served as the homeland security secretary in March 2017, and proposed the move in order to deter migrants from attempting to illegally cross the border.

The idea has been floated in previous administrations too, but according to the New York Times, “for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the idea of crying children torn from their parents’ arms was simply too inhumane — and too politically perilous — to embrace as policy.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/former-cia-head-compares-trumps-border-separation-policy-to-nazi-germany/

[louis c]

1. I agree wholeheartedly

K&R

[TomCADem]

15. Here Dr. Seuss's WW II cartoon satirizing American Nazi Sympathizers

Notice the slogan...

[Hortensis]

21. Oh, my. I don't recall ever seeing this.

Theodore Geisel was all right. But then we knew that.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. ~ Dr. Seuss

[samir.g]

2. And any BP officer who stays is willing nazi

Or at best an amoral mercenary.

[unblock]

3. rejected as too inhumane by shrub. that's saying something.

[Honeycombe8]

4. Yep. And Trump even has his own propaganda video of the children in their "new digs."

Shots of them eating well balanced, school-type meals. Videos of them playing games outside (in reality, they get to go outside 2 hrs a day, I heard on tv). Organized, clean. They don't show the kennels with multiple youths in them, etc. Propaganda. It reminds me f propaganda films I saw clips of in documentaries about Nazi Germany.

This is really shocking.

[sandensea]

5. Cheeto's idea of regimes that "love their people"

[EndGOPPropaganda]

6. Jesus this is a powerful image.

[Grassy Knoll]

7. Trump Camps

[okaawhatever]

8. Trump is doing this to force us to pay for his friggin' wall. The US doesn't negotiate with

terrorists. We MUST NOT cave to his demands. It will only set up another group for worse treatment, and will only delay the mistreatment of children until after the funding is approved.

[Hortensis]

11. Oh, we would give him a wall to stop this and

and reunite children with their parents. Of course.

Unfortunately, what the Republicans want is stronger, more inhumane laws with which to victimize refugees and immigrants, including those who've been here for years.

[Demsrule86]

13. Always the voice of reason. Of course we would give him the wall to save those kids...

However, would he live up to any deal? Look at Chip....promised not kept. And the other stuff in the bill is awful as you pointed out.

[Hortensis]

14. Sure. Not if we didn't make him, which we would

probably be able to make too expensive for him. Even the stupidest Nazis are coming to realize that just maybe doing this during the primaries and before people vote November 6 was not wise.

Did you hear that Trump wants to strip away a big chunk of the funding for the CHIP renewal they were forced to pass? The Repubs in congress at least know they need to wait until the elections are past.

People are demonstrating at concentration facilities in Texas today. Rep. Luis Gutierrez is on TV calling these atrocities "a tipping point." Let's hope so.

[Demsrule86]

16. I know about chip which is why I question if any agreement will be honored by liar

Trump. I wish I could go to a protest...we need to descend on DC before the election as happened in the Woman's march.

[Hortensis]

17. Me too. We're rural south, far from most, but

going on a road trip before long and I was looking for any already planned demonstrations yesterday. Unfortunately, a medical condition requires me to avoid heat and UV rays, which basically means we won't be heading for Texas or a big demonstration in DC (I'd love that!). We'd need to join small, accessible demonstrations. Our signs will ride under our mattress, though.

As for Trump, don't foget, we usually gain politically by the Republicans and Trump's dishonoring of agreements. Not an accident. Dishonor and dirty tricks among conservatives in Washington are expected and woven into our own strategies. The media tend to not cover us much, but Republicans breaking agreements with us of course provides enough drama and conflict to make the evening news.

[Demsrule86]

18. This is true. Sorry about your medical condition...after a lifetime of perfect health...I recently

was diagnosed as a Celiac...I was shocked and it has taken some getting used to.

[Hortensis]

20. Oh, I bet. Hope gluten restriction is coming along

relatively painlessly. Wish weight loss were one of my symptoms.

[Demsrule86]

22. I was losing weight until I discovered gluten free cookies.

[lagomorph777]

9. Jeff Sessions is the new Adolph Eichmann.

His mom must be so proud.

Trump, Sessions, Ryan, and McConnell should be sent to Gitmo forever.

[Solly Mack]

10. ...

This proved the case with torture, too. Hayden wasn’t yet at the C.I.A. when the agency, with the backing of the Bush White House and the Justice Department, tried waterboarding and other physical efforts to break Al Qaeda suspects in secret overseas prisons. By the time Hayden took over, many, though not all, of the practices had ended. Contemplating an order to subject a detainee named Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani to sleep deprivation and a liquid diet, Hayden writes, “I remember staring down at the page, pen in hand, hesitating to take that step.” Needless to say, he signed. Afghani’s interrogators got nothing useful from their prisoner; Hayden suggests that this was because the harshest techniques had by then been taken off the table.

Hayden insists that vital information about Al Qaeda came from these techniques. He’s contradicted by a thick Senate Intelligence Committee report, numerous journalistic investigations, and the accounts of certain intelligence officers. When it comes to detainee deaths, innocent men wrongfully held in brutal conditions, and other abuses, Hayden barely glances over his shoulder: “There were occasional mistakes.”

Hayden making excuses for torture

[Maxheader]

12. To the repugnation of the american public..

Now..

Amercun corps did business with germany during the lead up to and during ww2.
We've shook hands with dictators for their oil....

Now the Mexican public can feel shame, like we have, for dealing with such
a traitorous and inhuman government...cheetoz the king...

[dalton99a]

19. Kick