{"id":360792,"date":"2018-05-12T01:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-the-torture-never-stops\/"},"modified":"2018-05-12T01:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:32:48","slug":"roaming-charges-the-torture-never-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-the-torture-never-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: The Torture Never Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I\u2019ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jesse Ventura<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>+ Gina Haspel: \u201cI would not allow CIA to undertake activity that I thought was immoral even if it was technically legal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0But would Haspel do something \u201cillegal\u201d that she believed was \u201cmoral\u2019? I\u2019m sure Torquemada believed he was doing the \u201cmoral\u201d thing as he put his suspected heretics on the rack and began to turn the screws\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>+ As apologies for atrocities go, Charles Manson sounded more contrite during his parole hearings than\u00a0than Haspel before the Senate intel committee.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0The CIA has always appealed to liberals. Their officers and analysts \u201cpresent\u201d as intellectuals, capable of rationalizing any barbarity.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0Sen. Jack Reed: If a CIA officer was being waterboarded by an enemy would you consider that immoral?<\/p>\n<p>Haspel: I would never support that happening to a CIA officer.<\/p>\n<p>Gina Haspel\u2019s moral compass spins faster than one of those little black fans they sell at the Sharper Image\u2026<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0Haspel just surprised all students of the Agency\u2019s history by saying the CIA doesn\u2019t normally do interrogations, which begs the question of what James Jesus Angleton was up to all those years, just chit-chat, gab sessions, gossiping, locker-room talk and extreme unctions, I guess\u2026<\/p>\n<p>+ Ray McGovern, a 27-year veteran of the CIA and one of it\u2019s top analysts, interrupted the Senate Intelligence Committee\u2019s hearing \u00a0to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/11\/roaming-charges-the-torture-never-stops\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I\u2019ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.\u201d \u2014 Jesse Ventura + Gina Haspel: \u201cI would not allow CIA to undertake activity that I thought was immoral even if it was technically legal.\u201d +\u00a0But would Haspel do something \u201cillegal\u201d that she believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}