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McCain urges Senate to reject Haspel’s nomination
The Hill ^ | 05/09/2018 | BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN AND BRETT SAMUELS

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
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To: CWW

McCain voted YES to confirm the communist traitor as CIA Director.


41 posted on 05/09/2018 8:22:57 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: libh8er

This guy voted to confirm Brennan, lol.

Jokes on me though, voted for this reprobate in 2008.


42 posted on 05/09/2018 8:23:03 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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Mark R. Levin ‏ Verified account @marklevinshow 2 minutes ago

Very sad, Senator. Haspel deserves the nation’s thanks.

43 posted on 05/09/2018 8:23:05 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: libh8er

I think it’s [passed] time for the family to intervene. He does have BRAIN cancer.


44 posted on 05/09/2018 8:23:07 PM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: libh8er

No disrespect but die already? /s


45 posted on 05/09/2018 8:24:41 PM PDT by cranked
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To: libh8er

Well then, thank you John. That seals the deal for me that she IS THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB.


46 posted on 05/09/2018 8:25:28 PM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: libh8er

You know what is torture? McCain is torture.


47 posted on 05/09/2018 8:25:40 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The FBI is the Mob)
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To: libh8er

McPain the traitor.

Why is he squeamish about terrorists being tortured?

I don’t see that as a disqualifcation.

Haspel will get confirmed despite him and his bitter ill will toward our President.


48 posted on 05/09/2018 8:26:07 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: libh8er

Croak, Songbird.


49 posted on 05/09/2018 8:26:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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I am with Trump on McCain, I like soldiers who do not get captured.

McTwad has wrung out his pow time for all she wrote.

50 posted on 05/09/2018 8:26:56 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: libh8er

There’s a chasm of difference ,Juan, between you being tortured by North Vietnamese monsters and the U.S. using”enhanced” techniques saving American lives from a bunch of animals. So eat it baby!


51 posted on 05/09/2018 8:27:01 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: libh8er
Pink Floyd, "Hey You"

"...and the worms ate into his brain."

52 posted on 05/09/2018 8:29:32 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: rktman

I will drink a 6 pack of Hamm’s ro piss on his grave. I will not waste good beer on him. Hd deserves the piss of shitty beer.


53 posted on 05/09/2018 8:30:32 PM PDT by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: libh8er

If there is no video, his staff put this out.


54 posted on 05/09/2018 8:31:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: libh8er

John McCain = scum, vermin, traitor, turncoat, low life, hater, egomaniac & Satan worshiper. Hell and Satan await his arrival.


55 posted on 05/09/2018 8:31:56 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: goldstategop

[[Why is he squeamish about terrorists being tortured?]]

Terrorists were never tortured- they were interrogated- harshly, but no- not tortured- torturing would be doing things like soaking their beards in gasoline, and lighting their faces on fire- breaking their bones, hanging them from meat hooks and beating their feet with wood planks until the feet break- crap like that- Waterboarding is NOT torture- Hell- women in college go through waterboarding hazing rituals- apparently our women are toguher than terrorists are?


56 posted on 05/09/2018 8:34:36 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: libh8er

Jesus, I’m trying to be a good person and speak no ill. It’s getting harder.


57 posted on 05/09/2018 8:34:38 PM PDT by arkfreepdom
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To: rollo tomasi

It was hold-nose-and-vote time in 2008 at the general, though.


58 posted on 05/09/2018 8:35:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: libh8er

McCain = Michael Moore with some power.


59 posted on 05/09/2018 8:35:53 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: libh8er

McCain is evidence supporting the idea of demon possession.


60 posted on 05/09/2018 8:45:03 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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