Gina Haspel Followed Orders. That's the Problem




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"....Senator John McCain so eloquently said, that “the mistreatment of prisoners harms us more than our enemies.” And the blind eye that the nation has turned on those responsible for the torture program is a good example of what that expansive moral corrosion looks like....."


"...In 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee completed a 6,700-page classified report on the torture program, which exhaustively determined that suffocating men nearly to death had not produced useful intelligence. When Republicans took control of Congress and the White House, they demanded that multiple copies, which had been distributed to several agencies, be returned and locked away...."


FOCUS: Gina Haspel Followed Orders. That's the Problem 
Gina Haspel speaks at the William J. Donovan Award Dinner, October 2017. (photo: OSS Society/YouTube)
The Boston Globe Editorial Board
Excerpt: "There's nothing in the very little that's publicly known about Gina Haspel, the career spy nominated to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, that suggests even a whiff of insubordination. And therein lies a problem."
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