Search results for: “haspel”
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Gina Haspel and Torture: * Wrong * Ineffective * A Tool for War
“Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, has stated that neither he nor Powell were aware that the claims that Powell made before the UN just before the invasion of Iraq where partly based on torture. According to Wilkerson, Dick Cheney and the CIA prevailed on Powell to make false statements about a…
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Trump’s Nominees: Pompeo at State, Haspel at CIA: * Targeting Iran * Torture
“Haspel is not the first government official with involvement in torture, or other types of war crimes. This is a government with no accountability. But her hands are particularly dirty, having both run a secret CIA torture prison, and then covering up its felonies. Her nomination is a moral depravity. …”
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Biden Advisor an “Apologist for Torture,” an Architect of “Kill Lists”
Avril Haines is presented as a humane, intelligent and compassionate alternative to the typical white male elite that run the CIA and other such agencies. But her record is clear. She is an apologist for torture operations.
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“Hawks and Liars” Flying High on Cable News
“When it comes to Trump critics,” the article says, “CNN and MSNBC regularly serve up a basket of elite deplorables from the military/intelligence establishment—for example, the appalling ex-CIA Director John Brennan and horrific former acting CIA Director John McLaughlin. The hollowness of their Trump critique on ‘liberal cable news’ was on display last week when both men endorsed Trump’s choice for CIA…
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Trump CIA Nominee Faces Possible Arrest Warrant in Germany
Schüller said of Haspel: “She should be standing trial, not be promoted. … “The Federal Prosecutor did add our criminal complaint against Gina Haspel to his preliminary examination of CIA-torture, which exists since the U.S.-Senate Committee published its executive summary about CIA-detainee treatment in December 2014. “We ask for a joint criminal investigation of the…