Posted on 05/09/2018 8:03:57 PM PDT by libh8er
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came out against Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to be CIA director, on Wednesday after her confirmation hearing in the Senate.
In a break with President Trump, McCain urged his Senate colleagues to vote against Haspel, charging that "her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying."
McCain said Haspel in speaking to the Senate Intelligence Committee failed to address his concerns about her role in an enhanced interrogation program during the George W. Bush administration. The methods used in that program are now widely regarded as torture.
Haspel cannot afford to lose any additional Republican support. McCain is recovering from surgery related to his brain cancer in Arizona and was not expected to be present when the Senate votes on Haspel's nomination. With McCain out and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) opposed, Haspel still needs support from at least one Democratic senator as well as every other Republican to be confirmed.
"Like many Americans, I understand the urgency that drove the decision to resort to so-called enhanced interrogation methods after our country was attacked. I know that those who used enhanced interrogation methods and those who approved them wanted to protect Americans from harm. I appreciate their dilemma and the strain of their duty,” McCain said in a statement Wednesday.
“But as I have argued many times, the methods we employ to keep our nation safe must be as right and just as the values we aspire to live up to and promote in the world.”
McCain said that he believes Haspel “is a patriot who loves our country and has devoted her professional life to its service and defense.”
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What an ahole.
There is no press in hell, Juan McYellowstain.
Just something for you to ponder as you die.
I will not be tuning in to any of the coverage when McVain passes. The fawning and glorification of this POS by the MSM will be too much for me to take. I’m convinced this man has always been a Democrat.He’s one of many who infiltrated the GOP and destroyed it from the inside!
Hope McCain has a living will so he is not put on brain dead life support to deny the governor naming a Republican replacement. If he does not hopefully the nurse will trip over the plug and put him out of his misery.
If McStain is truly ill, as they say he is....it is likely the family (cough, cough, Cindy) making these absurd statements, for him.
They need to just let this old codger/traitor go quietly, in to that night.
This has become an embarrassing sham.
Hope he’s suffering something awful.
God forgive me.
You might be onto something. There may be more liberals in hell so he'd be in good company.
He succeeded with me!
Perhaps McQueeg is now Dave The Imposter.
Beneath him? The evidence argues otherwise.
Any video with this?. Hell he maybe dead already.
Since President Trump is such good buddies with Putin, I think POTUS should ask Putin to release the GRU “Song Bird” file on McCain.
I suspect many Senators are getting as sick with McInsane as we are. This will be a nice slap, when they confirm her.
And they better.
Truly unbelievable.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if he has written down “instructions” for his replacement. He wants to continue from beyond the grave in my opinion.
McQueeg has been dead for a month. They’re pretending he’s still alive so he can bequeath his seat to his wife.
I what to piss on his grave.
Resign, retire or die John McCain. We don’t need you nor your rotten wife sitting in the US Senate!
Good point!!
And SO NOT out of the realm of possibility with the capo regime deep state still around.
Think about your eternity John. Spend you last days getting right with God, not trying to be thorn in Trumps side.
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