First published at 07:40 UTC on May 23rd, 2018.
Weekly Update --- Haspel is Not the Problem. The CIA is the Problem.
Video 3:51 min. Tuesday May 22, 2018 Dr. Ron Paul
Written by Ron Paul - As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if…
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Weekly Update --- Haspel is Not the Problem. The CIA is the Problem.
Video 3:51 min. Tuesday May 22, 2018 Dr. Ron Paul
Written by Ron Paul - As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president’s 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.
Saying that Haspel would make a great CIA director, Cheney dismissed concerns over the CIA’s torture program. Asked in a television interview last week about the program, Cheney said, “if it were my call, I’d do it again.”
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 – Senators Paul and Flake – voted against Haspel. And just to confirm that there really is only one political party in Washington, it was the “yes” vote of crossover Democrats that provided the margin of victory. Americans should really be ashamed of those sent to Washington to represent us.
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’s watch.
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