haspel, gina
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bailled? nope, talked out of it; not deep state b/c she causes no trouble?
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// m traitor g no not dangerous, brn fail
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President Donald Trump is targeting his former FBI Director in a series of social media posts, including a repost that accused Christopher Wray of treason.
Trump reposted a post on Monday that placed Wray among sixteen people — including several former FBI officials — and labeled them as “Obama’s Russia HOAX Treason Club.”
Those depicted as members of the alleged “Treason Club” include Wray’s predecessor, former FBI Director Jim Comey; former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe; former CIA Directors John Brennan and Gina Haspel; former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Another post that Trump reposted accused former Director Wray of lying when he testified before Congress that he did not put FBI agents in the crowd on January 6.
Trump wrote: “Wray lied!!!”
The president also reposted a post he wrote in September, that reads in part, “It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax.”
Trump did not appear to provide evidence that supported his allegations.
Wray has denied there were FBI agents in the crowd as some form of operation.
A September Associated Press headline reported: “Alleged FBI documents do not prove federal agents incited Jan. 6 Capitol attack.”
Trump has also been calling for the prosecutions of his political adversaries, including U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), New York Attorney General Letitia James, former FBI Director Comey, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
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https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/cia-director-suppressed-information-on-russia-to-avoid-angering-trump-intel-officials/
intelligence officials are worried that CIA Director Gina Haspel is intentionally withholding information about Russian activities from the White House to avoid angering President Donald Trump.
Nine current and former intel officials tell *Politico* that intelligence on Russia “is being suppressed” because Trump simply does not want to hear about any nefarious activities being conducted by the Russians.
In fact, several sources said that Haspel has assigned CIA general counsel Courtney Elwood to review every piece of intelligence about Russia before it gets sent over to the White House, which these officials said was “unprecedented that a general counsel would be involved to this extent.”
In fact, things have reportedly gotten so poisonous over at the CIA that one Russia specialist “quit earlier this year after Haspel accused him of lying about intelligence — an accusation that happens fairly often,” Politico’s sources say.
Trump’s anger at hearing intelligence about Russia’s efforts to interfere in American elections is well known, in the last week publicly attacked his own FBI director for saying that Russia is once again working to upend the 2020 election.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/gina-haspel-cia-trump-intelligence-purge/
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https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/cables-reveal-cia-torture-under-gina-haspel
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Senate held a hearing for Trump's nominee for CIA director Gina Haspel. During the Bush administration, Haspel oversaw a CIA "black site" in Thailand where detainees were tortured, including one man who was waterboarded three times. Haspel was also instrumental in destroying tapes of the torture sessions, which she reiterated in her hearing. Right-wing media has gone to extreme lengths to show support for Haspel:
- Fox News figures repeatedly said that Haspel torturing detainees was fine because Haspel was just "following orders." This is the same defense that was rejected when the Nazis used it at the Nuremberg trials. It's especially problematic that right-wing media would use this as an excuse for Haspel, since Trump has promised to being back torture and "a hell of a lot worse."
- Bush administration figures came out of the woodwork to support Haspel. Condoleezza Rice invoked 9/11 to defend Haspel. The architect of the CIA's torture program demanded that Haspel be confirmed. John Yoo, the author of the torture memos, dismissed concerns about Haspel and the legality of torture. A former Dick Cheney adviser praised Haspel. Cheney biographer Stephen Hayes defended Haspel and called for the torture program to be restarted. Cheney himself said the same thing the very next day. Cheney lied, of course.
- Multiple Fox News panels downplayed Haspel's record of torture. An NRATV contributor even toldSean Hannity that being tortured was like a standing around all day. Not that Hannity would know -- he promised to be waterboarded for charity back in 2009 but never followed through.
- Fox & Friends brought back the myth that torture led to Osama Bin Laden. The Senate's report on torture conclusively debunked that.
- The worst was Fox guest, Lt. Gen Thomas McInerny, who said that America should bring back torture because it worked on John McCain in Vietnam. That statement, which by the way was not true, was so morally abhorrent that the Fox News host later apologized for not correcting McInerny. (Hours after McInerny said this, news broke that a White House official responded to McCain's opposition to Haspel by saying that McCain was dying anyways.)
Credit, though, to Fox anchor Shep Smith. Amidst all this morally reprobate behavior, Smith noted on his show that waterboarding was torture, and that America has prosecuted people for it in the past.
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https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-defends-war-crimes-transparently-desperate-attempt-save-gina-haspel
others eg fox and friends
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Trump has selected Gina Haspel to be the new deputy director of the CIA. The Intercept reports Gina Haspel was directly involved in the CIA’s torture program under the George W. Bush administration. She was responsible for running a secret CIA black site in Thailand where prisoners were waterboarded and tortured. The Intercept also reports Haspel played a role in the 2005 destruction of two interrogation videotapes that depicted the torture of prisoners.