Trump’s CIA Nominee Under Fire for “Torture”

RUSH: Let’s turn to the nomination of Gina Haspel. Gina Haspel has been chosen by Trump to be the director of the CIA. She’s been the deputy director for a number of years, and the way the CIA and the Department of Justice in many ways… The way they’re structured is that the deputy… At the CIA especially, the deputy is the day-to-day operations director. There is a director of operations, but the deputy director is generally the lifer who has reams and reams of CIA experience in the field, at Langley, and basically is in the know of pretty much everything important going on.

Well, the director, the deputy director of the CIA is as close as you’re gonna get to the person who knows and assigns what’s going on in CIA, and that’s who Trump has picked.

The forces of opposition are marshaling, and they are led by John McCain. All you have to do is put “torture” in a sentence containing the nominee’s name, and you’re guaranteed to get opposition from McCain. Rand Paul is signing on to opposing her for similar reasons. Now, you’ve only got 52 votes in the Senate, and already two of them are gone, all because of torture — and the torture has to do with waterboarding 9/11 suspects! She’s considered un-confirmable because of that.

Now, it turns out that Ms. Haspel worked for a CIA interrogation specialist by the name of Jose Rodriguez, and it turns out that Lesley Stahl at 60 Minutes did a profile or an interview of Jose Rodriguez. That interview and sound bites from that interview are among my all-time favorite audio sound bites here on the EIB Network.

Anyway, so that’s what she’s up against and we’ll have to wait and see how it falls out. Trump likes her. She’s eminently respected in the building from what I’m told. She’d be the first female director. For you Vince Flynn fans, she’d be Irene Kennedy. So now it’s the Democrats… Let it be known, the Democrats are gonna mount an offense, mount an effort to deny a woman — the first woman — her chance to be director of the CIA.

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