Haspel is Not the Problem. The CIA is the Problem.

Guest Post by Ron Paul
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As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president’s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the torture program she oversaw should tell us all we need to know about Haspel.Saying that Haspel would make a great CIA director, Cheney dismissed concerns over the CIA’s torture program. Asked in a television interview last week about the program, Cheney said, “if it were my call, I’d do it again.”
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Sadly, the majority of the US Senate agreed with Cheney that putting a torturer in charge of the CIA was a good idea. Only two Republicans – Senators Paul and Flake – voted against Haspel. And just to confirm that there really is only one political party in Washington, it was the “yes” vote of crossover Democrats that provided the margin of victory. Americans should really be ashamed of those sent to Washington to represent us.Just this month, the New York Times featured an article written by a woman who was kidnapped and send to the secret CIA facility in Thailand that Haspel was said to have overseen. The woman was pregnant at the time and she recounted in the article how her CIA torturers would repeatedly punch her in the stomach. She was not convicted or even accused of a crime. She was innocent. But she was tortured on Haspel’s watch.Is this really what we are as a country? Do we really want to elevate such people to the highest levels of government where they can do more damage to the United States at home and overseas?As the news comes out that Obama holdovers in the FBI and CIA infiltrated the Trump campaign to try and elect Hillary Clinton, President Trump’s seeming lack of understanding of how the deep state operates is truly bewildering. The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge.But instead of condemning the CIA’s role in an attempted coup against his own administration, Trump condemned former CIA director John Brennan for “undermining confidence” in the CIA. Well, the CIA didn’t need John Brennan to undermine our confidence in the CIA. The Agency itself long ago undermined the confidence of any patriotic American. Not only has the CIA been involved in torture, it has manipulated at least 100 elections overseas since its founding after WWII.

As President Trump watched Gina Haspel being sworn in as CIA director, he praised her: “You live the CIA. You breathe the CIA. And now you will lead the CIA,” he said. Yes, Mr. president, we understand that. But that’s the problem!

The problem is not Haspel, it’s not John Brennan, it’s not our lack of confidence. The problem is the CIA itself. If the president really cared about our peace, prosperity, and security, he would take steps to end this national disgrace. It’s time to abolish the CIA!

 

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THE NEW AND IMPROVED VILLAGE IDIOT
THE NEW AND IMPROVED VILLAGE IDIOT
May 22, 2018 3:35 pm

Straight outta Compton negro!

CIA is going away.

Fo evah!

Enjoy the show!

Boat Guy
Boat Guy
May 22, 2018 5:11 pm

Torture , great idea if you wish to lose any morality in your cause . I realize we are engaged in a terror war quagmire of our own making and those refusing to admit that absolute probably has some mental disorder regarding critical path thinking and decision making . Sounds like most who find their way to some high elected or appointed office in Washington DC .
In the course of some heavy violent high risk military missions (WAR) prisoners are to be treated with respect t and dignity as long as they no longer pose a threat to personal or the assigned operation . Should they make trouble the solution is simple “KILL THEM” and burn them immediately !
Once in a safe secured rear area prisoners should recieve protection food clothing and medical attention if available . Again any aggressive threat to our people and operation we must kill them on the spot but torture “NEVER” !
We as Americans should always attempt to maintain the high ground of moral superioty . By doing so we can then expect no less from our enemy . Nuremberg Anyone ??

John
John
May 22, 2018 5:22 pm

The Rockefeller CFR is the “central committee” of the unelected deep state which has controlled US policy since WW2. The CIA is just the operations department.

George HW Bush, Dick Cheney and George Soros are former CFR directors. Allen Dulles, the CIA director who shaped the agency and its clandestine operations, including “Operation Mockingbird”, was a CFR director for 40 years.

Most of the CIA directors and deputy directors have been CFR members including: Petraeus, Morrell, Hayden, Goss, Tenet, Deutch, Woolsey, Gates, Webster, Casey, Turner, Bush, Colby, Schlesinger, Helms, McCone, and Dulles.

CFR members have also filled the top slots at the Federal Reserve, and the departments of State, Treasury and Defense, going back decades and several levels deep in the org chart. Interlocking CFR affiliates include Brookings, Aspen, CSIS, Atlantic Council, Davos WEF, and dozens more.

CFR sponsors include Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon, Exxon, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Time-Warner, Reuters, Google and Facebook. Several of their execs are CFR members. The current CFR chairman is David Rubenstein, billionaire founder of the Carlyle Group.

See the lists of sponsors, directors and members in the CFR annual report starting on pg 36. Historic lists are available from other sources.

https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/AR2016_web.pdf

Ron Paul is a good guy, and he knows who these players are. Why is he still hacking at the branches (Fed, CIA) rather than striking at the root?

Westcoastdeplorable
Westcoastdeplorable
May 22, 2018 9:38 pm

If we didn’t have a CIA maybe we could afford a wall.

TampaRed
TampaRed
May 22, 2018 10:37 pm

should our country have an agency that gathers & and analyzes foreign intelligence and assesses potential threats to our national security?

Boat Guy
Boat Guy
  TampaRed
May 23, 2018 7:48 am

Yes Tampa Red but that’s not what any of the federal agencies actually do . They are more like gold plated diamond studded zircon encrusted blind squrills that occasionally find a nut !