Former CIA director: Sen. Feinstein is too ‘emotional’ to investigate torture

[MindMover]

Source: Raw Story

Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden on Sunday said that he had not seen the Senate’s report on the CIA’s use of torture, but he was sure that it could not be objective because Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) was too “emotional.”

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pointed out that the Senate Intelligence Committee report had found that the CIA had misled Congress — both about the number of detainees that were tortured, and about the effectiveness of the so-called enhanced interrogation program.

“Yeah,” Hayden replied dismissively, noting that a Washington Post columnist had reported that “Sen. Feinstein wanted a report so scathing that it would ensure that an un-American, brutal program of detention and interrogation would never again be considered or permitted.”

“That motivation for the report may show deep emotional feeling on the part of the senator,” Hayden opined. “But I don’t think it leads you to an objective report.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/06/former-cia-director-sen-feinstein-is-too-emotional-to-investigate-torture/

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OMG ... Heads are gonna roll ...

[CTyankee]

1. oh, those wimmin...we let 'em vote and then they get in office and they're just

emotional messes...

what is this guy's problem...???

[Jesus Malverde]

3. These are crimes punishable by the international tribunal in the Hague

The stakes couldn't be higher.

[CTyankee]

10. can't do the time, don't do the crime...

[AAO]

25. Character and Gender assassination in one fell swoooooooop!

[freshwest]

44. Appears to be no end to the misogny at Faux. It must be the GOP's newest mantra.

Just had some ahole talking about how an athlete's wife should have had a C-section to not interfere with the game being played and him being off work for the birth. Hitting women, workers and how knows how may targets ar the same time.

[Enthusiast]

47. Those wimmin will get in line once we take away their birth control.

[24601]

56. You likely were being sarcastic. I'm male and would be considered very emotional. Anyone that has

to investigate this should be. They also should recognize her/his emotion and compensate to ensure objectivity.

What I judge is unfortunate is that the Senate report split on partisan lines, therefore challenging its credibility. The President can solve this by declassifying the CIA records. The fact that he hasn't makes me suspicious.

[CTyankee]

59. Of course. I agree...

[Brigid]

64. That is exactly what I was thinking.

On the contrary, Mr. Hayden, Senator Feinstein is just the right person for this investigation.

[rock]

2. Perhaps he meant Feinstein is too ‘black’ to investigate torture

God is he crass (don't bother to answer, I know the answer).

[ashling]

29. Uh. point of order -

Senator Feinstein is not black

[Enthusiast]

48. She's not? Could have fooled me.

[Brigid]

65. "You mean I'm going to stay this color?"

Steve Martin in "The Jerk."

[Enthusiast]

67. ...

[OnyxCollie]

4. Too "emotional," and thus unable to think rationally.

I was often dismissed with the "passionate" pejorative by my poli-sci professors.

I find it particularly annoying now since everything I talked about turned out to be true.

[jtuck004]

5. uh-oh...

[Trillo]

6. Emotions are what make us human. NT

[24601]

60. Just out of curiosity, how then do you deal with a president that ordered a drone strike on a

US Citizen? In your view, would that merit more or less punishment than a President who authorized water boarding?

[24601]

69. Are the "war zones" Iraq (Past) and Afghanistan (present)? Or did the AUMF after 9/11 cover the

globe with the exception of the US? Anwar al-Awlaki was droned in Yemen. I'm not really in favor of impeaching & convicting President Obama and trying him for murder. Are you?

Situational ethics are slippery.

[24601]

71. Where is it clear that a preemptive strike is illegal? Where does it say we have to absorb a 1st

strike, especially in a nuclear world? By that logic if we had actually decoded the Japanese comms in time, routed their carriers and prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor it would have been a crime? I don't agree at all.

Double that for non-state actors.

And it's unconstitutional to try a member of Congress for anything on the floor - it's commonly referred to the speech and debate clause. (Article I, Section 6) The courts have even extended this to their offices.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Go easy on Hayden

His emotions are getting the better of him.

[elleng]

15. SOMETHING like that, seriously.

He's feeling the consequences of his behavior.

[Dustlawyer]

26. His ego more likely! He is Dick Cheney, Jr.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Hayden, kind of a creep.

But he's "Former" director Hayden, so his head isn't going to roll.

[noiretextatique]

12. torture is so much easier if you are a sociopath

who doesn't experience normal human emotions. there are too many of them in washington.

[LeftishBrit]

13. I.e. she's (a) female and (b) not a psychopath?

[DeadLetterOffice]

38. That would be it, yup. n/t

Aside from which -- hello? Feinstein "emotional?" Not hardly.

[tularetom]

14. Unfortunately the last thing Feinstein is "emotional"

Obscenely wealthy, in bed with the Pentagon, unconcerned with the privacy rights of Americans, all of that. But emotional is an adjective I would never use to describe her.

[lark]

16. EXactly

He's just trying to use the familiar catchphrases used to denigrate women. I didn't see the show but I bet he had a sick little smile going when he said that.

Asshole and totally incorrect besides.

[Enthusiast]

49. I must agree.

[Tom Ripley]

55. +1000

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. Whether Feinstein is emotional about the issue or not

if it's an honest report regarding the facts of torture, adults who read it can decide for themselves if it's un-American or brutal. Whether the committee produces a report that reads like an uncaring automaton prepared it or someone with a heart, it's the facts that count. But maybe this guy doesn't want honesty or facts.

[warrant46]

61. Feinstein = too old and too Senile

These is no Fire left in that empty suit

When her term is up she will be 87

She is going for the record of Strom Thurmond ( 100 years Old )

[plantwomyn]

72. You obviously didn'r see her speech on the floor.

The fact is that Feinstein has been on the Intelligence Committee throughout all of the torture and NSA violations. In short she has known all along and couldn't say a word about it. If she was "emotional" she would have called them out in 2002 or 2003. I know quite a few octogenarians that I would put against just about any young'un in a debate. I wouldn't give the vast majority of the Senators in office today a chance against her.

[Stuart G]

18. I wonder how the "emotional Feinstein" will respond to this crap?

These assholes, like Cheney and Hayden...never stop, never will

[JDPriestly]

19. Torturing people is a very emotional thing to do.

Hayden sounds like a cold-hearted sadist. Jeffrey Dahmer, anyone?

Reading stories of people undergoing torture, suffering from torture would make me very emotional too. It would make a normal person with a normal amount of empathy emotional.

Hayden needs to look at himself.

On the other hand, Feinstein could find better ways to express herself. Some of the other members of the committee have.

Also, from an interview I saw that featured Cheney, it sounds like he is going to rely on an advice of counsel defense if indicted or even challenged.

But he may have to prove that he relied on the advice of counsel in good faith. What a travesty of justice.

[Enthusiast]

50. Republicans have a cruel streak. It's part of their nature, the reason for being Republicans.

[closeupready]

20. People here complain about Sunday news shows, and yet, here we go,

People are posting here about them, giving them free publicity.

[TNNurse]

21. It is about time

That someone in the Senate and the House showed some real human emotion about the horrible things that are going on.

The heartless bastards have been running things for too long.

[onecaliberal]

22. Better than a sociopath

Like Hayden

[niyad]

37. welcome to du

[onecaliberal]

40. Thank you.

I've been a lurker for years.

[AAO]

23. Emotional = She'd kick my ass to China

[AtheistCrusader]

24. Naked sexism right there.

[rhett o rick]

42. .

[caraher]

27. I'd like to channel my inner Rude Pundit on this one...

There are no... polite... words...

[vanlassie]

28. Well she's a big ol warhawk, so....I think

he confused her being fucking pissed off with being emotional.

[Augiedog]

30. Oh yeah

Said the sociopath to to himself....cause who else is listening...oh that's right,...he is talking to the hand.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. I'd like to see how emotional Hayden gets as he's hauled off in cuffs.

[barbtries]

32. oh. my. gawd.

my jaw can still drop.
oh yeah, and fuck that pig.

[Hekate]

33. Sexist pig

[Live and Learn]

34. Ha, perhaps he mixed up Boehner with Feinstein.

Then again, Boehner only gets emotional at trivial issues. I am sure torture of others doesn't bother him a bit.

[DallasNE]

35. I See Sexism Is Alive And Well

I always though Hayden had an attitude problem and this is just icing on that cake.

[TygrBright]

36. Dude-- I think that dog whistle isn't gonna attract the kinda dogs you want. n/t

[niyad]

39. mikey, dear, your clueless, desperation-fueled sexism is showing. I would suggest seppuku,

but that would require possession of something you do not have.

[rhett o rick]

41. Exactly. Seppuku is for the honorable. nm

[Dawson Leery]

43. Jeffrey Dahmer, as with Michael Hayden saw nothing wrong with such horrid actions.

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[RufusTFirefly]

45. Further proof that this guy is psycho. (Not that I needed it.)

I'm still haunted by the way that he steadfastly (and repeatedly) refused to admit that the Fourth Amendment contains the phrase "probable cause" and even went so far as to brag about the NSA's knowledge of the Constitution. Talk about chutzpah.

This latest incident just adds fuel to the fire.

I never thought I'd be in a position where I viewed Feinstein as the Good Guy.

But when you compare her to a sociopath, she seems strangely sympathetic.

[truth2power]

46. Sexist pig!! ...

My apologies to all animals of the porcine variety.

[sakabatou]

51. You mean she's a woman, Hayden, you misogynist prick

[Jack Rabbit]

52. Michael Hayden is too crooked to hold a position of trust in a democratic government

So instead he held a position of trust in Bush Junta.

[Frustratedlady]

53. I would imagine that part of her "emotion" concerned the fact that

Congress was lied to. Isn't that a crime?

This is going to stir up a hornet's nest before it's all over. Is the Hague booked up?

[freebrew]

54. So, he said:

“Sen. Feinstein wanted a report so scathing that it would ensure that an un-American, brutal program of detention and interrogation would never again be considered or permitted.”

He's advocating un-American values? No wonder he's on Fucked news...fits right in(.)

[The Stranger]

57. Why hasn't this neo-Nazi piece of shit been prosecuted yet for lying to Congress?

[toby jo]

63. That nasty little tendency of women to apply emotional intelligence to pain being inflicted on

others.

Whereas men apply their emotional intelligence to pain being inflicted upon themselves - war, rape,
murder, abuse of all types.

Hayden : torture itself is hardcore male emotion run amuck.

[Arugula Latte]

66. She was the one who held it all together after Moscone and Milk were killed by Dan White.

It was a gruesome scene in SF City Hall, but she was the one who dealt with it with strength. I'm no DiFi fan now, in terms of most of her politics/policies, but "emotional" is a "slur" that doesn't fit her.

Plus this guy is a sexist asshole, so there's that.

[Arugula Latte]

68. Michael Hayden should check out this footage starting at 00:40