Confirmed!
National Politics News reports today Gina Haspel will become the first female director of the CIA, after a Senate confirmation vote that overrode concerns about her role in the spy agency’s harsh interrogation program after 9/11.
Thursday’s count of 54-45 votes was the closest for a CIA nominee in the nearly seven decades that confirmation from the Senate has been required. Haspel, who has spent nearly her entire CIA career in undercover positions, is the first operations officer to be confirmed since William Colby in 1973.
Haspel, 61, is a native of Kentucky but grew up around the world as the daughter of an Air Force serviceman. She worked in Africa, Europe and classified locations around the globe and was tapped as deputy director of the CIA last year. She worked under former CIA director Mike Pompeo until President Donald Trump moved him to secretary of state.
Haspel was backed by many in the CIA rank-and-file and was robustly supported by senior intelligence officials, including six former CIA directors and three former national intelligence directors, who said she earned the chance to take the helm of the nation’s premier spy agency. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats said Haspel has integrity and both frontline and executive intelligence expertise. “We salute Director Haspel, a trailblazer who today becomes the first woman to lead the CIA,” he said.
Her opponents argued that it wasn’t right to promote someone who supervised a covert detention site in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. They said the U.S. needed to slam closed what was one of the CIA’s darkest chapters that tainted America’s image with allies abroad.
Haspel is taking over from Mike Pompeo, whom Trump recently made his secretary of state. Her boss, John Brennan, CIA director during the Obama administration, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 8, 2013, by a vote of 63-34. He was also deeply involved in “enhanced” interrogation techniques, discussed here: http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=79403 but was not a Trump nominee.
Category: Politics
I’d hit it.
All her operational experience, I think she’d hit back.
counting on that
I’d hit hit while being waterboarded by her.
Come to think of it, I think their is a whole genre of porn dedicated to that.
I bet you and IDC SARC would consider that a fun first date!
Oh come on! Where’s the Justice for Khalid Sheikh Muhammad? As John Harwood would say, he’s a person too.
John Harwood would be mistaken. Again.
Hairy little monkey ain’t he?
I thought someone shaved a retarded ape!
Thanks to the internet all I see in that photo is Ron Jeremy or Rosie O’Donnell.
Rosie O’Donnell without makeup. Ron Jeremy ain’t *that* ugly!
Here’s a funny story.
My dad, with somewhat Mediterranean features (i.e. tan-skinned and dark-haired), had been celebrating his Navy retirement by growing a rather bushy mustache when that asshole got caught. I came down for breakfast that morning on my way to school, and saw that the local paper led with that picture.
All I did was hold the publication next to my dad’s face so that the rest of my family could see. I was not the only one to notice uncanny similarities.
I paid for my intransigence later, but the old man was clean shaven by the time I came home.
That’s not a person, thats a VERMIN!
Good.
John McCain and Kamala Harris can both EAFBOD.
To: Ms Gina Haspel…re: waterboarding
Dear Ms Haspel, if waterboarding is what is needed to get the information to save our troops and civilians….THEN WATERBOARD THE HELL OUT OF THE BASTARDS! As one here said recently, use diesel oil if it helps!
Prepping for the comments any time someone claims torture…..”DAAAAMMMMN GINA!”
Welcome aboard Gina.
“Haspel was backed by many in the CIA rank-and-file and was robustly supported by senior intelligence officials”
Hey, look at that! A woman who earned her way up, has impeccable professional qualifications for the job, and most importantly is supported by the people she will be leading because she has “been there and done that” (and probably taught quite a few of them everything they know). Despite all that, liberals and leftists strangely get to malign her without being called sexist.
They hate a woman who achieves on her own merits.
Ditto, Mason. She is a hot topic on talk radio. Some inbred pile of smegma called in to, I think, the Dave Ramsey show this afternoon (replay from during the week … Friday I think) and suggested she got to where she is in the Agency by plying her female skills. IOW, she made her credentials by lying on her back. He got cut off at the knees by Ramsey (?). From what I have learned, she sure as hell worked from pretty much the bottom up to her present position. The moron today would do well as a member of ISIS or from the Middle Ages. I do wish her well. As far as I’m concerned, there is little that could be done to those ISIS turds and their like that would give me much to be concerned about.
things need to go back to the old days where the CIA was respected
For that matter so do the FBI, NSA, ATF and all the other agencies tainted over the last decade.
Finally, someone who earned the job. I want to see more of this.
And I want and END to the whining, bickering, spoiled female brats who think they should be promoted because V——S. That is HOGWASH.
Earn it or shut your mouth.
I couldn’t have said it better myself!!
Ditto
I would not lie to that woman. Just sayin.
Fixed that for you.
You’re welcome.
Indeed. She has plenty of guys who could go Mitch Rapp on your ass. Or she could do so herself.
Just sayin?
Oustanding! This is great news. It is also a twofer! We get someone competent and the liberals heads explode!
Also, I was promised death camps! WHERE ARE THE DEATH CAMPS!!!!
“Also, I was promised death camps! WHERE ARE THE DEATH CAMPS!!!!”
Bwehahahahahahahahahah.
That pic tells me that she kept her lips sealed for so long they locked up on her. Cripes. She looks like she is in pain trying to smile.
I disagree. It looks to me like a guarded victory smile. “I made it mothefuckers!”
After 9/11 and a few other things, I couldn’t give two hoots and half a ratshit about suspected terrorists *COUGH* being made uncomfortable during interrogations and IT AIN’T waterboarding if you use diesel fuel!
BWAHAHAHA. I laugh every time I think of diesel fuel in a waterboarding!
Me too. But damn, that would be a really unpleasant experience. I don’t think you could squeeze your eyes tight enough to keep it from getting into your eyes. And God, the taste would stay with you forever, Like I say, a very unpleasant experience. Sort of what it is intended to be.
Good! I’m glad another adult with experience is in charge of an important agency. A no bullshit, get the job done, this is America, kind of leader.
Let’s also consider the message this sends to the terrorists, jihadis and other trouble makers in the world: Don’t count on a stay at the 4 star Hilton if you get captured by US forces.
And if you can’t handle that, then it may be better for you to go back to herding goats.
If the Demshits are against her she’s definitely good for America.
My only worry about her is that Brennan and Clapper supported her appointment. That may be a clue she is part of the Deep State. But maybe she is truly apolitical. Final judgment reserved.
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