U.S. Senate confirms Haspel to be first woman CIA director

[DonViejo]

Source: Yahoo News/Reuters



May 17, 2018

WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate confirmed Gina Haspel on Thursday to be director of the CIA, ending a bruising confirmation fight centered on her ties to the spy agency's past use of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques.

Haspel, who will be the first woman director of the CIA, is a 33-year veteran at the agency currently serving as its acting director. As senators continued to vote, the tally was 51-43 in favor of her nomination in the 100-member chamber, where a simple majority was required for confirmation.

Haspel was approved despite stiff opposition over her links to the CIA's use of harsh interrogation methods, including waterboarding, a type of simulated drowning widely considered torture, in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks.

An undercover officer for most of her CIA career, Haspel in 2002 served as CIA station chief in Thailand, where the agency conducted interrogations at a secret prison using methods including waterboarding. Three years later, she drafted a cable ordering the destruction of videotapes of those interrogations.

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[3Hotdogs]

1. Which Dems voted for Ms. Irma Grese?

[Stryst]

7. I'm having trouble finding the vote tally

But so far we know that Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Mark Warner both voted for her.

[MrsCoffee]

12. Per NBC News:

Senator Joe Donnelly, of Indiana
Senator Heidi Heitkamp, of North Dakota
Senator Joe Manchin, of West Virginia
Senator Bill Nelson, of Florida
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire
Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia.

[vi5]

13. Oh goody. Are we supposed to send them thank you notes?

"Thank you for having a D after your names, even though you are a reprehensible torture enabler and super fan!!"


Go team!

I was wondering why I had to go two pages in to find even a mention of this vote. If this were a party line vote everyone on here would have righteously been posting about how horrible this was and every other thing about it.

But because it wouldn't have been possible without those 6 Democrats.....it's crickets compared to what it otherwise would have been.

[HopeAgain]

2. America has pretty much lost any moral authority.

Torture, calling immigrants animals, selling our international policies to the highest bidder, it goes on and on...

[turbinetree]

3. How many of these people have served in the military? And those that have served,

you have no fucking principles, because after all if you have family members serving and they get the shit that she stood over and watched in real time happening ......................your as fucked up as she is, she is right wing POS, and you really need to be voted out of office............................I really do hate psychopaths, that are suppose to follow the international and military guide of conduct and law.
And whats really fucked up these assholes that voted for this POS, pass laws that don't mean a fucking thing, and then run around talking about others countries----------------go fucking figure.........................

[old guy]

4. The USA now officially condones and promotes torture.

[DeminPennswoods]

11. Yep

nt

[christx30]

14. Having the architect of 9/11 come out against her

probably didn't help the Dem cause of keeping her out.
"Terrorists are against her being in the job. She must be good" is the thought a lot of people have. Dude should have kept his stupid mouth shut.

[lagomorph777]

5. Handing us another campaign point.

Except for the Dem traitors who voted for her.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

6. I'm reading it was 54-45, with 6 Dems voting to confirm

Donnelly- D-Indiana
Heitkamp- D-North Dakota
Manchin- D-West Virginia
Nelson- D-Florida
Shaheen- D-New Hampshire
Warner- D-Virginia

Paul and Flake are the only GOP voting against.

[riversedge]

9. i am glad my Senator is NOT on that list of Dems who voted yes. Thanks for list.

[DeminPennswoods]

10. My senator isn't on the "aye" list either

Glad Sen Casey knows right from wrong.

Also good to see Sen Jones (AL) voted no, too.

Lindsey Graham couldn't even bring himself to support his "good friend" John McCain's request to vote against Haspal.

[FirstLight]

8. Can it get any worse?

Let me put this on ...

But did anyone else have the thought as she was refusing to say torture was morally wrong...that This is it. Now we are gonna have a CIA that can do black ops on our own citizens...?
I swear, it's like watching the lead up to the dystopian governments in so many movies. Intimidate the media, spin lies until people can't see straight, create enemies of minorities, promote civil unrest, and then grab all the liberals who are protesting and take them somewhere the sun don't shine...

sorry, I think the paranoia is getting to me...