Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
How did a person who should be in the criminal dock both in the US and in the International Criminal Court for running a torture prison get appointed the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency? What is all the Washington talk about defending human rights when a torturer is put in charge of covert operations?
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But now Washington has a real criminal, a real person who has committed without any doubt “crimes against humanity” confirmed by the US Senate as CIA director. That tells us a lot about the hypocrisy, double standards, and utter mendacity of the government in Washington.
As some Republicans voted against the torturer in chief, it was the Democrats that put a torturer at the head of the CIA.
Listen to their excuses:
West Virginia’s Joe Manchin said: Haspel prioritizes the safety of America. She is “an unbelievable public servant.”
North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp said that Trump had picked the director best suited to the job. Heidi said she would make sure that Congress conducts oversight of Haspel’s job, an ambivalent statement if the job is torture, which seems to be enshrined in US practices.
Indiana’s Senator Joe Donnelly said that he believed Haspel “has learned from the past, and that the CIA under her leadership can help our country confront serious international threats and challenges.”
What threats? What challenges? This is bla-bla talk. Think about it for a minute. Imagine a criminal before the judge saying “I have learned from my past crimes and am now fit to be an upstanding citizen who can help our country.”
Florida’s Bill Nelson covered his collapse as a moral person by meeting with Haspel personally and arriving at the conclusion that she was fit to serve.
According to Newsweek these four US Democratic senators face tough re-elections and voted to clear Haspel in order to appease the Trump deplorables. In other words, these four senators think that the deplorables, who voted for Trump because he said he was for peace in Syria and with Russia and was against the US being policeman of the world, want to have a torturer confirmed as CIA director. The Democrats voted for a torturer because they are afraid of Trump voters. If Trump voters want a torturer in office, the senators would be honor bound to stand up to the Trump voters.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D, NH) said that she believes Haspel that she won’t torture again. “Your honor,” said the murderer in the dock, “I promise I won’t murder again. Just give me this plumb appointment as chief of police.”
Virginia’s Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, put Haspel in the job with his assurance that she would stand up to Trump if he ordered her to torture. In other words, Warner associates Trump with torture, not Haspel who has actually tortured.
Please, let us not hear again about America liberating other nations and defending human rights, or having a moral conscience, or being a light unto the world.
Well, Trump did say on the campaign trail that we should torture. So those democrats who voted for Haspel may have a point about Trump voters. I’d like to think people voted for Trump in spite of his stance on torture not because of it.
Well, if there is no other assurance, there still is the CRIMINAL State’s behavior of “consistency”. (sic)
Torture is a fact of life in the intelligence business. It has always been thus and will continue despite the political protestations to the contrary. That being said, the torture of truth and logic and rationalizing by corrupt and self serving politicians is fascinating. It should be a SNL skit.
Compared to those Senators, Gina Haspel is trustworthy. We know what she is.
Haspel displays the attributes of a crypto-Jew although I have found no evidence that she is of Jewish background. But she seems a lot like Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright who stated that killing 500,000 Iraqi children using punitive sanctions was justified. Like Hillary Clinton, these are satanic creatures without a shred of humanity, remorse or common decency.
Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was “worth it” wins Medal of Freedom
comparing albright’s statement about killing 500,000 kids to haspel’s torturing of adult terrorists is stupid & juvenile–
what is wrong with torturing a terrorist who has knowledge of an impending attack against our people or troops?
Tampared ,
Are you referring to those other countries that put their country so close to USA military bases and troops.
Shut the fuck up and get a clue, you baby killing POS.
“Like Hillary Clinton, these are satanic creatures without a shred of humanity, remorse or common decency.”
That, exactly.
Where is BB?
If Haspel were a Christian, the Dems would have blocked her nomination.
My only concern is that they won’t let her torture the scumbag bad actors still dwelling in the CIA when she brings them down! We will all be calling for their execution when the extent of their dirty deeds has been revealed and the CIA is destroyed and dismantled forever. It’s been Rothschild owned and controlled since before it’s current moniker of CIA was bestowed upon it.