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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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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