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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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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Anybody say anything about destruction of tapes and her lobbying for it?
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@emptywheel I'm okay with punishing people who did wrong things because they were ordered to.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Soooo ... the Nuremberg defense.
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#Haspel to be punished. Punishment can be so harsh. I mean heck, Crucifixion seemed pretty harsh. Internment can be kinda cagey. Torquemada was kind of a jerk. "No body expects the Spanish Inquisition! "Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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