Wyden and DiFi all chummy since they're on the same side in this hearing.
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Haspel shaking every Senators' hand before the hearing starts, something I've never seen in any confirmation hearing. CIA recruitment trick, I guess.
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You can follow along the hearing here https://www.c-span.org/video/?444988-1/cia-director-nominee-gina-haspel-testifies-confirmation-hearing&live … or here https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-nomination-gina-haspel-be-director-central-intelligence-agency …
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Burr starts by telling people to get their loud protests out of the way early so he can have them removed.
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Burr: This hearing's about, ... This hearing's not about long-shuttered programs. It's about Haspel.
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"You have acted morally, ethically, and legally over a 30 year career."
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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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Replying to @emptywheel
Warner don’t get it He’s trying to lead the witness Promoting a torturer is such a stupid thing to do A nation of 330 million w/a $20 trillion/year economy still scared of a few religious zealots & their threats A free society requires acceptance of freedom’s inherent risks
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Actually, I quite like his statement. I think it was shrewd in a number of ways.
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He sounds like he’s searching for a way to vote yes to me In my view today should be a sound spanking of her hubris in accepting the nom, with an admonition to be happy she got the #2 job & glad she wasn’t prosecuted for destruction of tapes in disobedience of a court order
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