And here's Dick Cheney's daughter explaining, defending torture to former war prisoner John McCain

[Judi Lynn]

By Jen Hayden
Thursday Mar 15, 2018 · 2:57 PM CDT

This week Donald Trump is trying to ‘reboot’ his administration. After firing his Secretary of State via Twitter, he announced he would be nominating CIA Director Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State and Gina Haspel to lead the CIA. Gaspel oversaw and directed some of the most horrific policies of the George W. Bush administration. From Politico:

In nominating Haspel, Trump could hardly have selected a person more demonstrably ill-suited to carry out any of these essential duties. Although most of her career has taken place in the shadows and part of it was reportedly distinguished, Haspel is most prominently known for being intimately involved in carrying out the agency’s catastrophic Bush-era torture program or, as it was euphemistically called back then, the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program. As such, she bears great personal responsibility for a program famous for its exceptional savagery and brutality, managerial incompetence and consistent ill-judgment.

Haspel was no mere CIA paper-shuffler. By all accounts she was an engaged participant in the torture program. She reportedly ran the CIA’s torture “black site” in Thailand and directly supervised the inhuman interrogations of Al Qaeda suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. Later, when a congressional committee sought to exercise its constitutional oversight of the RDI program, Haspel was instrumental in the destruction of the videos of the black site waterboarding sessions—against the advice of superiors in the Bush administration. This act alone, which I believe was almost certainly motivated by a desire to destroy the evidence that waterboarding exceeded the legal threshold for torture and thus to evade both personal and institutional accountability and oversight, should be sufficient to disqualify her from confirmation.

More:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/15/1749316/-And-here-s-Dick-Cheney-s-daughter-explaining-defending-torture-to-former-war-prisoner-John-McCain

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. And here is McCain's daughter in reply:

Link to tweet

[Judi Lynn]

2. Well written response. Don't know how she kept her anger in check so well! Thanks. n/t