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Thursday, May 17, 2018

Haspell Cofirmed

It looks like the Dems lost again.  Gina Haspel was just confirmed to be Director of the CIA.  She's the first woman to lead the agency.  She's also a career employee at the CIA and an extremely well respected one at that.  She has bravely served the country for decades and done a great job.

None of that mattered to the Democrats, however.  Haspel worked at a site where three terrorists were water-boarded in the early 2000's.  That action supposedly made her a supporter of "torture" and unfit for the postion if you listen to people like Chuck Schumer and other senate Democrats.  It's actually rather strange.  The last CIA Director under Obama, John Brennan, was high up in the agency when the water-boarding was done.  He helped design that program to extract information from the terrorists.  When Obama nominated him to lead the CIA, however, none of the Democrats who vigorously opposed Haspel this year said anything about Brennan's direct involvement in setting up that program.  Instead, they waited until now and used the argument against a woman who wasn't even there when the water-boarding first began, and who did not have the authority to stop it.

It's called hypocrisy, and Chuck Schumer and his friends are the ultimate hypocrites.

Haspel deserves our congratulations.  Schumer and the Senate Democrats, however, can also have a cheer, a Bronx cheer that is.

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