Kentucky’s other U.S. Senator, Mitch McConnell, has voiced support for Haspel. The practices are now banned.
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McCain led efforts during the George W. Bush administration to end the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member Mary Kissel: “CIA nominee Gina Haspel is handling herself admirably at her nomination hearing”.
“I want to be clear”, Haspel told the committee. It said: “May I remind you my husband has a family, 7 children and 5 grandchildren”.
Former Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA): “No one is better prepared, more focused, or more capable to carry out that mission than is Gina Haspel”. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, announced he would vote in her favor. He said he believes Haspel is a patriot, but “her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying”. Honour John McCain not by calling for Sadler’s dismissal, but by proving her wrong-and by stopping an overseer of torture from reaping profit from her sins. Well I don’t buy that, ‘ Cheney said.
Sadler has yet to publicly respond, but a source said she called the senator’s daughter, Meghan McCain, to apologize.
“We had some great discussions about all the travels, talking about going to Iraq, and I couldn’t remember who the general was, and he said, ‘Its General Austin, ‘ and I said, ‘OK, thanks, ‘” Graham recalled, careful to say their time together was “reflective and forward looking, too”.
McCain is not expected to return to Washington for the vote, and he may not be able to sway his colleagues to stop her confirmation. The Senate should confirm her.
Sen. John McCain, who chairs the Armed Services Committee and was tortured by the Vietnamese for five years, says the Senate should reject Haspel.
As Senate consideration of Gina Haspel to head the Central Intelligence Agency quickly turned into a debate over torture, one voice weighed in from afar.
Trump scraps nuclear deal.
He is the same senator who staunchly and briefly opposed Mike Pompeo’s nomination for secretary of state but then flip-flopped after a visit to the White House. “Do you believe in hindsight that those techniques were immoral?”
Haspel reportedly supervised a “black site” in Thailand during the interrogation of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, a Saudi suspected of involvement in the 2000 bombing of the US destroyer Cole.
In 2005, Haspel drafted the cable instructing the Thailand tapes to be shredded. Subsequent internal and criminal investigations resulted in no charges. “I would absolutely not permit it”.
He added, “I’m not up here to say that Washington and all of these other people were bad, there are still good things we can say about them. She is speaking steadily and deliberately in her open statement”.
In her testimony yesterday, Gina Haspel gave conservatives a rare insight into how operatives of the Deep State think and work – and it should scare everyone who saw it or has read about it. But she added a caveat. “I was heavily involved in getting it set up, and getting the opinion out of the Justice Department on how far we could go”. She had total control over which parts of her clandestine record could be declassified for the Senate hearing. Asked what she would do if Trump ordered her to restart interrogations, Haspel replied that she bows to a “higher moral standard”.
“No, you have not”, Harris said.
The derisive comment was reportedly made during a discussion of Haspel’s nomination.
After 33 years in the shadow of the CIA’s covert operations, Haspel was making her first-ever public appearance.
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Kaine also pointed to GOP Sen.
