DO NOT CONFIRM GINA HASPELL AS CIA DIRECTOR

GINA HASPELL SHOULD NOT BECOME CIA DIRECTOR

President Trump and his staff who are the victims of secret, unelected, establishment, powerful forces which wish to undermine his presidency and the choice of the people in a valid election—should be more circumspect concerning the types of candidates they nominate for politically powerful, positions shrouded in secrecy and with little or no oversight.  These are the very dangerous forces which we have learned in the last 15 months are capable of undermining a president and attempting to overturn a legitimate election.  The President and his advisors  should be more careful—but they are not.  Mr Trump has nominated Ms Gina Haspel as Director of the CIA.

Mr. Trump and the entire nation is now experiencing what happens when powerful establishment forces within its structure, move toward taking on evil practices that attempt to deny the Congress oversight into their activiies and  begin to think that they are the “government” and deny that function to our openly elected officials.  These “deep staters”and  establishment types believe that they “know better’  than the millions of voters who cast ballots in a supposedly democratic, constituriona  republic.

To my mind it is ironic that Ms Haspel a typical denizen of the deep state establishment  has been nominated by Mr. Trump—a presidential victim of run away establishment power—to head one of the most powerful and most secret (and most dangerous) agencies we maintain in our government.  Ayone who is nominated to head such an agency should be beyond any question of doubt of their support for our Constitution, our moral code and ethical standards.  They must be beyond even a hint of reproach.  He or she should be a person who does not carry the stench of torture into the directorship of the CIA.  

Ms Haspel is a long time insider at the CIA.  Her supporters claim she is “patriotic” “obeyed orders” and was always eager to take on “difficult” assignments.  That is a weakness not a strength in a leadership position which may require an invidual to stand up for a moral and legal code.  Adolph Eichman and the Nuremberg defendants were also patriotic and willing to take on difficult assignments.  Their excuses that they  “did what they were ordered” got them all a hangman’s noose.

Ms. Haspel ran the infamous secret Detention Site “Green” in Thailand where the CIA detained and tortured its victims.  She was involved in the decision to transport and torture Abu Zubaydah at that site. This man, though he freely gave up any information he had to FBI interrogators, he was waterboarded 83 times, as well as suffering extreme physical and mental abuse (more forms of torture) at the hands of the CIA.  In the end, he provided no useful information as a result of this treatment by Ms Haspel and her underlings.   He remains in our custody...nearly two decades after his arrest.  Besides her connection to these actions which are actionable in the World Court and may hinder her travel beyond our borders she was also involved in an illegal coverup of torture and abuse at these infamous detention centers.  Ms Haspel is reported to have complied with orders from the CIA leadership to destroy 92 video tapes which were evidence of the tortures conducted at these dark sites.  That act compounds her involvement, sanctioning and complicity with torture with the act to destroy evidence and coverup an illegal act.  How can such a person assume the leadership of the CIA?

NO IT IS CLEAR WE CAN NOT TRUST MS HASPELL WITH SUCH A POWERFUL POSITON.

SENATORS SHOULD VOTE NO