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cgod  ·  2227 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Gina Haspel’s history of torture means for the CIA

Gina Haspel should be a convicted felon, not a CIA director.

If you are represented by a Senator on the Senatorial Select Committee on Intelligence, and you share my sentiment, call them. Find out how they are going to vote in committee and urge them to vote against. They will conduct a separate investigation on qualification from the one the executive presents them and will either recommend or decline to recommend the nominee.

Almost no one who has been declined a recommendation from their committee has ever gotten through a nomination. It probably isn't likely that they will decline but you never know. John McCain sits on the select committee and maybe he isn't done fucking with Trump. More than a few people who might want to run for President are on the list who might like to poke Trump in the eye. I'll be calling Wyden tomorrow.

Richard Burr, North Carolina, Chairman

Jim Risch, Idaho

Marco Rubio, Florida

Susan Collins, Maine

Roy Blunt, Missouri

James Lankford, Oklahoma

Tom Cotton, Arkansas

John Cornyn, Texas

Mark Warner, Virginia, Vice Chairman

Dianne Feinstein, California,

Ron Wyden, Oregon

Martin Heinrich, New Mexico

Angus King, Maine[11]

Joe Manchin, West Virginia

Kamala Harris, California

John McCain, Arizona

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky

Jack Reed, Rhode Island

Chuck Schumer, New York