{"id":362700,"date":"2018-05-25T01:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T00:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/haspel-is-not-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T01:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T00:14:18","slug":"haspel-is-not-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/haspel-is-not-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Haspel Is Not the Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it\u2019s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president\u2019s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the torture program she oversaw should tell us all we need to know about Haspel.<\/p>\n

Saying that Haspel would make a great CIA director, Cheney dismissed concerns over the CIA\u2019s torture program. Asked in a television interview last week about the program, Cheney said, \u201cif it were my call, I\u2019d do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sadly, the majority of the US Senate agreed with Cheney that putting a torturer in charge of the CIA was a good idea. Only two Republicans \u2013 Senators Paul and Flake \u2013 voted against Haspel. And just to confirm that there really is only one political party in Washington, it was the \u201cyes\u201d vote of crossover Democrats that provided the margin of victory. Americans should really be ashamed of those sent to Washington to represent us.<\/p>\n

Just this month, the New York Times featured an article written by a woman who was kidnapped and send to the secret CIA facility in Thailand that Haspel was said to have overseen. The woman was pregnant at the time and she recounted in the article how her CIA torturers would repeatedly punch her in the stomach. She was not convicted or even accused of a crime. She was innocent. But she was tortured on Haspel\u2019s watch.
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Is this really what we are as a country? Do we really want to elevate such people to the highest levels of government where they can do more damage to the United States at home and overseas?<\/p>\n

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As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it\u2019s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president\u2019s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the torture program she oversaw should tell us all we need […]<\/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-362700","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\/362700","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=362700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}