And ... @medeabenjamin is removed even before the Haspel hearing begins.
Probably not an accident she was the 2nd person removed.
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Burr talking about how Haspel's supervisors said nice things about her. Genius statement! People who don't have good personnel reviews don't get promoted up the ranks of a bureaucracy.
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Feinstein sends Burr a note about something as soon as he finishes speaking.
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Warner now raising concerns about someone who participated in RDI being head.
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Warner: In your own view of RDI should the govt ever permit detainees to be treated as they were treated in RDI program. Was that program consistent with American values?
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Warner asks Haspel how she works with Trump and whether she can speak truth. "Will you be in the room when it matters and will the President listen to you?"
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Warner asks her to back both the SSCI and Mueller investigation, which is going to (possibly designed to) get her in trouble with Trump.
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Saxby Chambliss, who backed a whole slew of policies that hurt women when he was Senator (including blaming sexual assault on hormones), talking about how nifty it is a woman will lead CIA.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fringe-factor-women-dont-want-equal-pay-laws …
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Saxby suggests that not making Haspel D/CIA would amount to punishing her for stuff that was approved. That misses the point: there are other people who didn't torture who are also qualified.
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Saxby repeats again that Haspel will be first female D/CIA.
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Evan: My father, Birch Bayh Let me finish that for you, Evan, your father, Birch Bayh, was a much more noble man than you are.
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"Who can forget the twin towers falling,... throughout it all this committee was an oasis of bipartisanship, no Democrats, no Republicans, just Americans." Delivered in this creepy voice. Ick ick ick.
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When they say Haspel is the most qualified person to have this job are they comparing her with Dulles, Colby, and Helms, or are they just making a distinction between DCI and D/CIA?
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Note, another oddity abt this hearing: Haspel introduced by former committee members, not by a home state senator (I think).
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Haspel's second invocation of Mike Pompeo (his wife is in attendance).
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