Warner now raising concerns about someone who participated in RDI being head.
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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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Haspel: I think you will find me to be a typical middle class American, with a strong sense of right and wrong.
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Haspel describing her first meeting with an agent on a dark moonless night, where she gave an extra $500 for the men he led.
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It is not my way to trumpet fact I would first first woman, but woman across the IC consider it a good sign for their prospects.
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"Reaction of work force to rare nomination of one of their own, someone who has been in the trenches, has been overwhelming."
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Haspel now bragging about what is fundamentally selective declassification in support of her nomination.
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Haspel talking about volunteering on 9/11. "I didn't leave for 3 years."
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"It was CIA who identified and captured Osama bin Laden." SEAL propagandists go nuts!
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Haspel answers a different question than Warner asked: whether CIA will restart torture, not whether it was wrong.
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