Posted on 05/09/2018 8:03:57 PM PDT by libh8er
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came out against Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to be CIA director, on Wednesday after her confirmation hearing in the Senate.
In a break with President Trump, McCain urged his Senate colleagues to vote against Haspel, charging that "her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying."
McCain said Haspel in speaking to the Senate Intelligence Committee failed to address his concerns about her role in an enhanced interrogation program during the George W. Bush administration. The methods used in that program are now widely regarded as torture.
Haspel cannot afford to lose any additional Republican support. McCain is recovering from surgery related to his brain cancer in Arizona and was not expected to be present when the Senate votes on Haspel's nomination. With McCain out and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) opposed, Haspel still needs support from at least one Democratic senator as well as every other Republican to be confirmed.
"Like many Americans, I understand the urgency that drove the decision to resort to so-called enhanced interrogation methods after our country was attacked. I know that those who used enhanced interrogation methods and those who approved them wanted to protect Americans from harm. I appreciate their dilemma and the strain of their duty,” McCain said in a statement Wednesday.
“But as I have argued many times, the methods we employ to keep our nation safe must be as right and just as the values we aspire to live up to and promote in the world.”
McCain said that he believes Haspel “is a patriot who loves our country and has devoted her professional life to its service and defense.”
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McCain voted YES to confirm the communist traitor as CIA Director.
This guy voted to confirm Brennan, lol.
Jokes on me though, voted for this reprobate in 2008.
Very sad, Senator. Haspel deserves the nation’s thanks.
I think it’s [passed] time for the family to intervene. He does have BRAIN cancer.
No disrespect but die already? /s
Well then, thank you John. That seals the deal for me that she IS THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB.
You know what is torture? McCain is torture.
McPain the traitor.
Why is he squeamish about terrorists being tortured?
I don’t see that as a disqualifcation.
Haspel will get confirmed despite him and his bitter ill will toward our President.
Croak, Songbird.
McTwad has wrung out his pow time for all she wrote.
There’s a chasm of difference ,Juan, between you being tortured by North Vietnamese monsters and the U.S. using”enhanced” techniques saving American lives from a bunch of animals. So eat it baby!
"...and the worms ate into his brain."
I will drink a 6 pack of Hamm’s ro piss on his grave. I will not waste good beer on him. Hd deserves the piss of shitty beer.
If there is no video, his staff put this out.
John McCain = scum, vermin, traitor, turncoat, low life, hater, egomaniac & Satan worshiper. Hell and Satan await his arrival.
[[Why is he squeamish about terrorists being tortured?]]
Terrorists were never tortured- they were interrogated- harshly, but no- not tortured- torturing would be doing things like soaking their beards in gasoline, and lighting their faces on fire- breaking their bones, hanging them from meat hooks and beating their feet with wood planks until the feet break- crap like that- Waterboarding is NOT torture- Hell- women in college go through waterboarding hazing rituals- apparently our women are toguher than terrorists are?
Jesus, I’m trying to be a good person and speak no ill. It’s getting harder.
It was hold-nose-and-vote time in 2008 at the general, though.
McCain = Michael Moore with some power.
McCain is evidence supporting the idea of demon possession.
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