Obama Protected Torturer Now Becoming CIA Director
“We tortured some folks.” – President Barack Obama. And we didn’t stand up for justice and the rule of law. Looks like we paved the way for President Donald Trump…
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UPDATE:
Some are sighting a retraction by ProPublica that inaccurately described Gina Haspel’s role in the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al-Qaida leader who was imprisoned by the CIA at a secret “black site” in Thailand in 2002…
1. No, it isn’t. 2. Haspel still oversaw torture. 3. She still helped destroy evidence. 4. CIA’s own duplicity & secrecy is to blame here. 5. She should be thankful bc this error got her nominated to be CIA director by Trump. 6. There needs to be a truth & reconciliation project. https://t.co/1QM2ztVyHn
— Stuart Schrader (@stschrader1) March 16, 2018
I've been watching Senate Democrats for way too long. They're indescribably horrendous. It was 100% predictable that not even gruesomely torturing captive detainees with your own hands will make them try to block the ascension of a security state official. pic.twitter.com/m8q1bfAEt8
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 14, 2018
This person was a speechwriter for Bush & Rumsfeld during the torture regime, then wrote a book defending torture. He was then hired by the WashPost as a columnist, where he still works. Good to remember the next time WPost publishes an editorial condemning foreign bad countries: https://t.co/kuJ0dcHDg9
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 14, 2018