Posted on 05/10/2018 10:03:39 AM PDT by xzins
Gina Haspel at her confirmation hearing to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency. (Screen Capture) (CNSNews.com) - In her confirmation hearing on Wednesday in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Jack Reed (D.-R.I.) asked Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, whether she had ever been alone in a room with Trump.
“You’ve been working with the administration now for fifteen months,” said Reed. “You have had the opportunity to brief the president. Have you ever been alone with the president?”
“Senator,” Haspel responded, “I’m usually there with Senator [Dan] Coats [the Director of National Intelligence], a brilliant analyst who delivers the actual analytic briefing, and usually the national security adviser, the vice president.”
Reed then explained that his question was inspired by fired FBI Director James Comey’s claim that President Trump had asked him in a private meeting for his personal loyalty.
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“There have been allegations—Mr. Comey, one—that while he was alone the president asked for a personal pledge of loyalty,” said Reed. “If you were ever approached by the president and asked for a personal pledge of loyalty, what would you respond?”
“Senator, my only loyalty is to the American people and the Constitution of the United States,” Haspel responded. “I am honor bound and will work very hard to deliver to this president and his administration the best performance and intelligence CIA can deliver.”
She further told Reed: “I don’t believe that such a circumstance would ever occur.”
Here is the exchange that took place between Reed and Haspel:
Sen. Jack Reed: You’ve been working with the administration now for fifteen months. You have had the opportunity to brief the president. Have you ever been alone with the president?
Gina Haspel: Senator, I’m usually there with Senator Coats, a brilliant analyst who delivers the actual analytic briefing, and usually the national security adviser, the vice president.
Reed: There have been allegations—Mr. Comey, one—that while he was alone the president asked for a personal pledge of loyalty. If you were ever approached by the president and asked for a personal pledge of loyalty, what would you respond?
Haspel: Senator, my only loyalty is to the American people and the Constitution of the United States. I am honor bound and will work very hard to deliver to this president and his administration the best performance and intelligence CIA can deliver.
Reed: And if you were approached in such a way and such a demand were made of you, would you inform this committee and the Congress that you had been so approached?
Haspel: Senator, I have worked very closely with this president. I don’t believe that such a circumstance would ever occur. CIA has been treated with enormous respect and our expertise is valued for what we bring to the table.
Reed: If it occurred would you inform the committee?
Haspel: Senator, it is a hypothetical. I don’t think it is going to occur. I am very confident about that.
Reed: It does not seem to be a hypothetical. People have alleged that that has happened already.
Haspel: Senator, I don’t know anything about that conversation.
Reed: Okay.
yup...and once again mis-characterizing what our President said:
“There have been allegations—Mr. Comey, one—that while he was alone the president asked for a personal pledge of loyalty,””
the pledge of loyalty focused on not leaking information to the media- which is against the law- not any sort of pledge to Trump himself...Comey’s memos said as much and proved he is a criminal for leaking information..
“The answer to your next question Senator…boxers…red…with the word W-I-N-N-I-N-G on them.”
And if they had, the leftists would have burned the house down
Wonder if he likes gladiator movies?
tiny brain?
If Bill Clinton was President and she was alone with him ,he would have a very bad limp when she left
Most excellent answers. She can really think on her feet.
As an covert CIA agent, I’ll bet she could kick Bill Clinton’s ass and Senator Reed at the same time without spilling her coffee
She’s rock steady!
But Reed needs to get called out on this.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/harry-reid-is-proud-he-lied-about-mitt-romneys-taxes
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Been watching (off and on) the Senate confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel as our next CIA Director. I’m thinkin’ she oughta be given equal time to interrogate some of those Senators ... using some of her favorite tools and techniques learned from 30 years in the agency.
It would have been amusing if she had said that when she was alone with him, she made him get on his knees and beg her to take the position.
These Senators are fools.
I would not be against losing the whole crew. There must be one or two decent people in each state that could replace them.
Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island is just as slimey as former Sen Reid of Nevada was.
Senator, my only loyalty is to the American people and the Constitution of the United States,”
LOL, you go girl, the Senator can’t say that.
Or if she could just beeatch slap a few of them....
What an idiot and fool he is!!
My sassy self would love to ask him if a woman has ever been alone with HIM!! Reed, that is.
Haspel is probably thinking about Reed, “I could have you whimpering like a puppy in under a minute.”
That sexist bastard needs to immediately resign. She was a little weak on interrogation techniques in the future after the President said he wanted “tougher” that water boarding but She is qualified and His pick so I will pull for her. She is damned site better than the communists would have as CIA director like those two traitor bastards, brennen and clapper. Damned are they criminal leaking scum.
I thought her answers were really solid.
What impressed me more, though, was her refusal to throw past operators under the bus because of her current nomination.
She could have called them immoral, but then we’d have to call our warriors from past wars immoral because the used bombs, flamethrowers, atomics, etc.
It is immoral to call past warriors immoral just because they lived in a different world
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