Posted on 03/13/2018 5:53:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Trump tweeted, "Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!"
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Why was it silly? Great Britain is saying the Russians did it.
“And he can close all the State Dept. run-Gay Bath Houses for openers.”
Can he lock the gay Deep Staters up in the closed State Dept. run-Gay Bath Houses?
They were going to move McMaster elsewhere, and Kelly was going to replace McMaster. Kelly was grooming the guy that had to leave over the ex wife black eye to be chief of staff.
Tillerson is gone today. The Deputy Secretary is the acting Secretary of State until Pompeo gets confirmed.
Once they get around to it.
She appears to be one tough woman.
Per Wiki:
Haspel ran a “black site” CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002.[5][6] The site was codenamed “Cat’s Eye” and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods.[7][8] Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a “large box”, had his head slammed against a wall and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence (Interrogation of Abu Zubaydah).[9]
Haspel later was the chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez, who headed the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had “drafted a cable” in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand.[8]
In 2013, John Brennan, then the director of Central Intelligence, named Haspel as acting Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service, which carries out covert operations around the globe.[10] However, she was denied the position permanently due to criticism about her involvement in the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program.[11] Haspel has also served as the Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Foreign Intelligence and Covert Action.[5]
Haspel is the recipient of the George H. W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism, the Donovan Award, the Intelligence Medal of Merit and the Presidential Rank Award.[1]
On February 2, 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Haspel deputy director of the CIA. On February 8, 2017, several members of the Senate intelligence committee urged Trump to reconsider his appointment of Haspel as Deputy Director.[12] Senator Sheldon Whitehouse quoted colleagues Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich who were on the committee:
I am especially concerned by reports that this individual was involved in the unauthorized destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, which documented the CIA’s use of torture against two CIA detainees. My colleagues Senators Wyden and Heinrich have stated that classified information details why the newly appointed Deputy Director is ‘unsuitable’ for the position and have requested that this information be declassified. I join their request.
On February 15, 2017, Spencer Ackerman reported on psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, the architects of the enhanced interrogation program that was designed to break Zubaydah and was subsequently used on other detainees at the CIA’s secret prisons around the world. Jessen and Mitchell are being sued by Sulaiman Abdulla Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and Obaid Ullah over torture designed by the psychologists. Jessen and Mitchell are seeking to compel Haspel, and her colleague James Cotsana, to testify on their behalf.[13][14]
On March 13, 2018, President Donald J. Trump announced via Twitter that he will nominate Haspel to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, which would make her the first female CIA director.[15]
as per Wiki........Haspel ran a "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002. The site was codenamed "Cat’s Eye" and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods......
Yo.
Trump just placed the former head of the CIA in charge of State, to personally go through Cankles’ files.
https://twitter.com/LarrySchweikart/status/973560257032024064
hopefully Sessions will be next.
Congress has to convene hearings for Pompeo and Haspel, so it would be a perfect time to give Sleepy Sessions his pink slip.
One clear message here (as it was to Bannon):
NO EMPIRE BUILDING. You answer to the boss.
Maybe, some of Hilliarily’s and Huma’s files will be recovered and released.
Obama State Dept Made Deal With Hillary Allowing Removal Of Records.
Here’s What They Removed.DECEMBER 15, 2017
Newly-revealed documents obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch reveal that the Obama State Department allowed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin to remove sensitive documents that were not to be made public records.
Judicial Watch received the records on Thursday in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that sought all DS-1904 forms completed by or on behalf of Former Secretary Hillary Clinton, Former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, Former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, and Former Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan.
Clinton and Abedin were permitted to remove both electronic and physical records, claiming “they were ‘personal’ materials and ‘unclassified, non-record materials,’ including files of Clinton’s calls and schedules, which were not to be made public.”
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton noted the gravity of the latest revelations, stating they showed further corruption in the Obama administration and with Clinton.
View Article:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/24711/obama-state-dept-made-deal-hillary-allowing-ryan-saavedra
Mattis still has not gotten rid of drag queens. He was given an order by the president and ignored it. Trump should fire him to.
You know the media drill...”Embattled Trump gets skeptical response from critics who question his tactics in obtaining an unconditional surrender from the ayatollahs and North Korea.”
I doubt that she will get confirmed since the Dems will make hay out of the black site and interrogation procedures used back then. All Dems and 5-6 Rinos will vote against her confirmation. She will end up withdrawing.
The media talk about Trump’s firings as though he is some dictator. Seems to me Obama hired and fired at will - as is or was his prerogative as the Executive.
He opposed the boss on all the important issues. Iran Treaty, Norks, Tarrifs also opposed moving the Embassy to Jerusalem
Depends on who you ask I suspect.
Tillerson was a believer in global warming and as Rush says if you buy that cr@p you must also believe that America is the reason for it. That attitude does not put America first.
Besides some one has to defend Big Oil from the Murder charge Arnold is bringing against them and T-Rex may be just the guy.
T-Rex got under the bus and dared Trump to run over him. Good riddance. One down.
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