I didn’t like her caving on the waterboarding issue- said ‘it never should have happened’- she could have just said nothing and still been confirmed- but she apparently wanted to let the world know that she also thought waterboarding was torture- handing the dems just what they wanted- The dems won on hte issue- they got waterboarding deemed to be ‘torture’- She just helped them win on that argument when she could have just not said anything after all the hearings-
‘said it never should have happened’
I don’t believe she said that. She also refused to say it’s immoral.
It doesn’t matter what she said because they wouldn’t vote for her anyway.
She told them what they wanted to hear. The CIA uses whatever techniques they have to use to get information. That ain’t about to change.
Waterboarding is a moot point. It’s no longer in place, so it can’t be abolished. If it’s being implemented, it’ll be in some third-world aligned hole where the spooks normally do much worse, and nobody would know about it, and the brass don’t mind so long as they have deniability. Besides, it’s not all that effective, I’ve heard, because it’s not hard-core enough.
Waterboarding is just a catchy Virtue Signal that the ‘Rats send out to their dopey base...and also John McCain, LOL!
There are PLENTY of other effective torture techniques, as anyone who has spent ANY amount of time in the military already knows.
So? No more waterboarding...that we’ll ever HEAR of again. ;)
Rand Paul has a point. He asked her in writing what she knew about Brennan spying on the Trump campaign and on the transitional presidency. Paul also thinks that Hasprey was a Brennan protegee. I am not altogether sold on her.
I would have also asked her what is the evidence for "Russian meddling" other than a few dumb FB ads and posting bots. But of course she would not have given a real answer.
“I didn’t like her caving on the waterboarding issue- said ‘it never should have happened’-”
Darn now we’ll have to let someone else do it for us...and maybe a little more rigorously in their own ways. Perhaps the Comanche, Jicarilla Apache, Navajo, or Oglala Sioux nations would oblige? I’m sure Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia etc would be delighted to help.Nothing like a little threat of rendition to start a conversation.
“I didn’t like her caving on the waterboarding issue- said ‘it never should have happened’-”
Darn now we’ll have to let someone else do it for us...and maybe a little more rigorously in their own ways. Perhaps the Comanche, Jicarilla Apache, Navajo, or Oglala Sioux nations would oblige? I’m sure Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia etc would be delighted to help.Nothing like a little threat of rendition to start a conversation.