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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel May 9

    You guys. With some distance from that Gina Haspel hearing, I'm still wondering this: She spent 30 years as a clandestine services officer. Why doesn't she lie better?

    6:55 PM - 9 May 2018
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      1. Chip Gibbons‏ @ChipGibbons89 May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Ideology. She totally believes what she did is not only ok, but deeply laudable and thus is having difficulty adjusting to the fact that other people might not feel that way.

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      1. Goldensrule‏ @BDBgoldens3 May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Maybe because she's used to lying to "marks" or "targets" (for lack of a better description), so when she's in a setting today where "the truth & nothing but the truth is required", she doesn't know how to "do" truth & it clearly tripped her up more than once.

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      1. it's                                  0xdeadbⓐbe 💮‏ @0xdeadbabe May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        She doesn't have to. It's a fait accompli.

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      1. Laura Townsend‏ @goaloa May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        She appears weak and easily dumbfounded by confrontation. Hard to imagine her standing up to Trump, or anyone (not in shackles that is).

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      1. BansheeBabe‏ @bansheebabe May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        How good are any of these beasts at their jobs when 9/11 happened on their watch? Everyone sure has amnesia over all the incompetence & petty rivalries that resulted in them missing all the signs, don't they? Nobody wants to bring that one up at the hearing.

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      1. tatere. 🦑‏ @tatere May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Never assume competence

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      2. Pete Manley‏ @DRSID1 May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Why isn’t her skin better if she works in the shadows

        2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. VITW‏ @JosephWelch3rd May 9
        Replying to @DRSID1 @emptywheel

        These are the questions!

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      1. Mark Riley‏ @wrylee May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel @joanwalsh

        Well, the CIA has been less than stellar for the last 30, so not much of a shock

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      1. IBrake ForAnts‏ @ibrake4ants May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        She mostly didn't answer the questions as asked, so there was no need to really lie.

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      1. leservale‏ @lesservale May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        #BloodyGina And yet, she's going to be confirmed.

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      1. Moll Usk‏ @the_stormclam May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        If she were competent, she wouldn't be a torturer, would she?

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      1. Deborah Knox‏ @artsloverpgh May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel @joanwalsh

        She said what they wrote for her, clearly.

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      1. JPHowey‏ @JPHowey May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel @joanwalsh

        Her uncontrollable wincing and blinking when Mark Warner asked her about destroying evidence of torture wasn't the best..."tradecraft"...shall we say.

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      2. Gaius Publius‏ @Gaius_Publius May 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Because her only practice has been lying to the choir...

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      3. Rob Levine‏ @roblevine82 May 10
        Replying to @Gaius_Publius @emptywheel

        Maybe she had to conform to docs she thinks others might have?

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      1. Big_A‏ @alexhellman May 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Who cares if GH believes a hypothetical will come to pass or not? Probability of Trump asking g Haspel for a loyalty pledge? 95%

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      1. Greg Ellner‏ @GregoryEllner May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel @EllenDatlow

        Why bother? Bad lying gets these people jobs all the time.

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      1. Wilkey‏ @WilkeyTheWrite May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel @joanwalsh

        And there you have it: All this smack talk on Sarah Sanders, but the woman knows how to lie! That’s sheer talent.

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      1. Angela Gentry‏ @AngelaTGentry2 May 9
        Replying to @emptywheel

        When liars try to be honest...for once...they sound like liars...#itstrue #liarscanttell #thetruth

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