Did you know we beat an innocent pregnant woman in Gina Haspel's black site in Thailand?

Blackjack200

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momeNt

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Anything Snowden is saying is in concert with Russia.

If Russia doesn't want Haspel as head of the CIA, that brings up two questions.

1. Why?
2. Who do they want?
 

Phokus

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Anything Snowden is saying is in concert with Russia.

If Russia doesn't want Haspel as head of the CIA, that brings up two questions.

1. Why?
2. Who do they want?

The story about beating an innocent pregnant woman comes from the NYT, it's not like Snowden is making it up.
 

zinfamous

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Anything Snowden is saying is in concert with Russia.

If Russia doesn't want Haspel as head of the CIA, that brings up two questions.

1. Why?
2. Who do they want?

wow, so now Snowden isn't the hero that we wanted him to be?

convenient!
 

momeNt

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wow, so now Snowden isn't the hero that we wanted him to be?

convenient!

I'm busting balls, the stories are true and reported and corroborated from multiple sources.

She personally wrote the order to destroy the tapes, as Rodriguez's chief of staff, the cable was sent by Rodriguez though, so Snowden worded that to sort of only partially tell the truth.

This is the CIA after all, and we live in the age of terror, so really what do you expect.
 

brycejones

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The good news is that according to the Bush administration none of these things are torture. A beating is just "stress touching", anal rape with a foreign object is just "an enhanced orifice exam". So it was like totally cool at the time.
 

hal2kilo

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It's a mistake to let career operational people become head of the CIA. Should be someone from the analysis side.
 

allisolm

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The good news is that according to the Bush administration none of these things are torture. A beating is just "stress touching", anal rape with a foreign object is just "an enhanced orifice exam". So it was like totally cool at the time.

According to Trump ""I would support and endorse the use of enhanced interrogation techniques if the use of these methods would enhance the protection and safety of the nation." Add that to Haskel as Director of the CIA and it must still be cool.
 

MooseNSquirrel

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Come on people be more sympathetic, those were "tough times" and that means it's ok to sell out your humanity.