Posted on 05/09/2018 8:03:57 PM PDT by libh8er
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came out against Gina Haspel, President Trumps 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 tortures 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 ...
McCain was never a soldier. An unwilling combatant, a yellow prisoner, yes, but not a soldier.
True, this is turning into ‘Weekend at Bernies’. They probably got this guy under glass like Lenin.
Hypothetical scenario:
A 250 kiloton bomb has been planted in one of our major cities by terrorists. We do not even know which city. We have 24 hours to find the bomb. We have one of the terrorists in captivity.
Do we play nice or get the information anyway we can. Waterboarding would only be step one.
Torture applied scientifically does work, that is an ugly fact. The necessity of harsh means verses massive death can be ugly when one chooses to survive. Not to choose to survive is even uglier and stupid.
this POS wants to die knowing he screwed Trump over..he had no problem voting for Brennan who authorized it but Brennan is a commie lib so it’s all good
Can you believe this? On his deathbed, and still spewing venom and bile! Go, Mr. McCain, just go away so you can do no more harm. People need to stop giving him a microphone in his state of delirium.
Just leave him alone and may posterity forget who and what he became after Vietnam.
In defense of McCain, and that is not easy, I think he was mentally broken while imprisoned. I think he never recovered from his treatment at the hands of North Vietnam.
ps
My brother worked on Phantoms as an electronics tech in Vietnam. After the war he meet a few of the pilots on whose planes he worked. Pilots that were shot down and captured. He said some were really messed up mentally.
McCain being against her is all I need to know that she is the right person for the job!
I urge St. Peter to reject Juan....
So what else is new?
His not resigning is the most selfish move in history.
Mission accomplished.
Did McCain say this on the Senate floor? Or was it through more “Ghost Writers”?
Is McCain even conscious? He has bee MIA for months. He is rumored to be at deaths door. Is somebody speaking for him? Seriously, I want to see video of everything that is reportedly attributed to him.
JUST DIE ALREADY!
So “Republican” McCain is slamming Haspel for not falling into far-left Democrat Kamala Harris’ trap.
Perhaps he was and is broken. In which case he is unfit to serve as a United States senator. But since he has taken that role, he will be accountable for his actions, his votes and his comments.
I’ve never seen a more petty vindictive asshole on the way out.
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