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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"CIA cannot be effective w/o people's trust." Hailing Congressional oversight process. Note, in her description of torture she didn't address destroying a video that Congress had asked for.
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Gonna interject here: the moment to establish that we can't have torturers lead CIA was actually Brennan, not Haspel. Dems failed that test.
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Burr: I would remind members that we are in an open session. Did Burr actually give Wyden the side eye when he asked that?
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Burr pitches the video destruction as entirely Rodriguez' decision. "The tape issue had lingered at CIA for a period of about 3 years. A great deal of concern about security risk to CIA officers depicted on tapes."
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Haspel: Rodriguez has made it very clear that he and he alone made the decision. I did not appear on those tapes as has been alleged.
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Note: the claim this was about protecting officers doesn't make sense for reasons I'll go into later.
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Haspel: The official record is the cable record, we use that to detail all our operations. [So why is that not sufficient to do a SSCI report off of? That makes NO SENSE.]
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In her description of legal/policy issues behind destroying tapes so far, Haspel hasn't mentioned the active request from Carl Levin for tapes.
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Haspel says there was a HPSCI investigation that never produced a report. She says HPSCI Chair found no problem. That's VERY curious given that Pete Hoekstra had a briefing the day of the destruction.
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Warner: Were you aware of Senator Levin's actions [proposing 9/11 style commission]? Warner: Were you aware of those actions [from multiple opposing view points] Haspel: I recall security concerns, I don't recall pending legislation.
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*whispers* so.. Obama failed that test
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The difference from Obama is that we all know for certain that Trump would love nothing better than to torture as many people as possible. He supports extra-judicial killings, even of mere drug users. We need someone at CIA who will definitely NOT enable this.
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Obama engaged in extrajudicial killings.
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Very true. But at least he felt bad about it.
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