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 Trumps nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, whether she had ever been alone in a room with Trump.
Youve 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, Im 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 Comeys claim that President Trump had asked him in a private meeting for his personal loyalty.
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There have been allegationsMr. Comey, onethat 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 dont believe that such a circumstance would ever occur.
Here is the exchange that took place between Reed and Haspel:
Sen. Jack Reed: Youve 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, Im 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 allegationsMr. Comey, onethat 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 dont 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 dont 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 dont know anything about that conversation.
Reed: Okay.
She wanted Haspel to recuse herself from decisions about the declassification of her own career.
And she’s a covert agent.
She steadfastly held that she stood by the declassification rules used by the CIA.
She wasn’t a front office puke. She was an operator on the front lines.
Same here. If terrorists have a WMD and one of their cell gets captured, I’d take any punishment for breaking rules to save American lives.
Is there a committee among senators to condemn and punish them for making such a statement?
She looks like Sara Gilbert’s mom. REF:TBBT
“He was suggesting she traded sex for her CIA nomination, wasnt he?”
My first take was that Reed was dropping an innuendo that Trump is trying to grab everything that moves. Either way, Reed was ready with the cover that he’s only concerned with Trump’s alleged focus on “loyalty oaths,” evoking the e-vile Sen. Joe McCarthy. Next up is the projection that there is a Trumpian witch list to drive devoted federal workers out of their jobs. The dems are snakes.
How many skeletons are in Reeds closer?
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it, ridicule it.
And note that in the entire exchange she never answered the questions that he asked. Read the transcript again or watch the video. She very deftly gives the distinguished Senator answers and not one of the answers cover what he asked. I love it.
My sense, too, that he was suggesting she traded sex for CIA appointment.
But, he had the “loyalty” thing to fall back on.
A real snake.
reed proves that he is a irreversible moron. Was her ewver “alone” with nobama? And what “occurred” when they were alone???
reed proves that he is a irreversible moron. Was he ever “alone” with nobama? And what “occurred” when they were alone???
Jesus said pray for your enemies. That way God puts His eyes on them and messes up what they are doing!
Senators can be censured, but...
Well...you know
Wow-if she is a Democrat she might want to rethink it. She has been treated very badly by them. I watched her face as
Kamala( the woman who would be President) was berating her with her “yes or no” questions, and she showed remarkable restraint.
The Democrat Thug Party
Reed was once alone with the President, who refused Reed’s sexual advances and kicked him out of the oval office. Obama, however, got it on with him. Good grief, Charlie Brown.
Don’t worry, Kamala isn’t ready for the big show, I saw her on interviews - she is too goofy to handle Trump.
So? There have been allegations, Senator Reed, that you molest cub scouts. Until these allegations are proven they really don't matter do they?
I wish she would have called him Senator Kennedy.
“Sen. Reed, if you had a wife, would you stop beating her?”
(Do liberals get Brownie Points for the degree of insanity of their hypothetical questions or only for the quantity? )
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