Say No to Torturers (E45)

Trump fires Tillerson, picks Mike Pompeo to replace him at State and Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo at the CIA. We discuss Pompeo’s extremist views and hawish desire for war and Haspel’s participation in torture at a CIA blacksite. We also tackle Democratic complicity in the face of these two torture supporters advancing in the cabinet.

Call your Senators and tell them NO on Pompeo and NO on Haspel! 202-224-3121

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Win Without War has a strong statement against Mike Pompeo: 

During his tenure as CIA Director, Pompeo has been accused of radically politicizing the agency and colluding with ideologically driven organizations to misrepresent intelligence. Throughout his career he has been a proponent of torture, denied climate science, promoted anti-Muslim views, and opposed diplomacy with Iran.

With impending, high level diplomatic needs — from North Korea to trade negotiations — Mike Pompeo is a dangerous choice for Secretary of State.

See also:  Mike Pompeo’s Disturbingly Consistent Friendships with Anti-Muslim Bigots

Nominates Gina Haspel to run the CIA

Propublica, “CIA Cables Detail Its New Deputy Director’s Role in Torture“:

As the CIA’s video cameras rolled, security guards shackled Abu Zubaydah to a gurney and interrogators poured water over his mouth and nose until he began to suffocate. They slammed him against a wall, confined him for hours in a coffin-like box, and deprived him of sleep.

The 31-year-old Zubaydah begged for mercy, saying that he knew nothing about the terror group’s future plans. The CIA official in charge, known in agency lingo as the “chief of base,” mocked his complaints, accusing Zubaydah of faking symptoms of psychological breakdown. The torture continued.

Haspel headed up first US black site torture center (in Thailand) after 9/11 in context of global war on terror.  She Oversaw specifically brutal torture of Abu Zubayda & others, and  when transferred back to CIA HQ she signed off on the order to Thailand center to destroy the video evidence of the torture.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/cia-deputy-director-gina-haspel-torture-thailand.html

Will Dems roll over and let this happen?

The instability of this administration in just about every area weakens America.

If he’s confirmed, we hope that Mr. Pompeo will turn over a new leaf and will start toughening up our policies towards Russia and Putin.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 13, 2018

The Democrats who voted to confirm Pompeo were:

Joe Donnelly of Indiana

Dianne Feinstein of California

Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire

Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota

Tim Kaine of Virginia

Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota

Joe Manchin of West Virginia

Claire McCaskill of Missouri

Jack Reed of Rhode Island

Brian Schatz of Hawaii

Chuck Schumer of New York

Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

Mark Warner of Virginia

Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island

And here are the 16 Democrats who moved the bank deregulation (S. 2155) bill forward: https://twitter.com/justicedems/status/973583527445958656

Say NO to the CLOUD Act; Keep it out of the Budget bill

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/cloud-act-dangerous-expansion-police-snooping-cross-border-data

Image via Jared Enos

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