The Haspel Pick Breaks the Model

American Thinker ^ | May 14, 2018 | Ishmael Jones

[Kaslin]

Gina Haspel, the President’s nominee for CIA chief, is a CIA bureaucrat with 33 years of service. She is widely respected. She'll not be chewed up by the bureaucracy.

Democrats who accuse her of torturing terrorists are working from a playbook out of the 1970s. They believe in the efficiency of government and see the CIA as too aggressive, a toppler of leftist dictatorships. That's a historical optic which has little basis in fact.

Gina never tortured anyone. The challenge facing the CIA is that it is not aggressive enough and has too many sitting, do-nothing bureaucrats located in the Washington D.C. area.

Clickbait articles tell us that prolonged sitting, even two hours at a time, is bad for the health. It’s probably bad for mental health as well. With a long-term government employee like Gina, we have someone who has been sitting for 10,000 hours, not torturing people. As a senior manager, she’s succeeded by outsitting her competition.

I’d have preferred as CIA chief a maverick with presidential support such as a John Bolton, or a younger Rudy Giuliani from the days when he cleaned up New York; or a success in another field such as a Bill Belichick; or even a determined leftist such as Tim Cook, CEO of successful and secretive Apple.

As a Trump supporter I’m always delighted to find the genius in Trump’s actions. Where’s the genius in picking Gina?

Here it is: Gina may have done a great deal of sitting, but she did some of it in foreign countries. She showed an early interest in espionage in foreign lands, and has had multiple, successful foreign assignments. She has shown respect for acquiring foreign languages and skills.

[Zhang Fei]

Gist of the article is that Brennan was a paper-pushing bureaucrat who spent his entire career in DC whose forte was office politics, whereas Haspel was a field officer running agents in the field. Which is why Haspel is as qualified as Brennan was unqualified to be CIA chief.

[Senator Goldwater]

Winning.

[TBP]

This is why she’s such an inspired pick.

[Impy]

I’d have preferred as CIA chief a maverick with presidential support such as a John Bolton, or a younger Rudy Giuliani from the days when he cleaned up New York; or a success in another field such as a Bill Belichick; or even a determined leftist such as Tim Cook, CEO of successful and secretive Apple.

So Trump should invent time travel and go back and abduct young Rudy so he can be CIA Chief? Or have either a football coach or a leftist CEO do it? I'm hoping this dude's tongue is firmly in his cheek with this.

[BillyBoy]

1983 Rudy Giuliani named 2018 CIA Director by President Trump "I would like to thank President Trump and his time machine for taking forward into the future to accept this position. It is with regret that I leave my role as a U.S. Attorney in the Reagan administration to assume this responsibility. But I hear I'm gonna be mayor someday! Sweet!

In other news, 1998 Lindsey Graham announces he will be filing a primary challenge against 2018 Lindsey Graham, arguing the latter is "too liberal for South Carolina"...