Word for Word: CIA Director Nominee Questioned on Enhanced Interrogation (C-SPAN)
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- During her confirmation hearing to head the CIA, Acting Director Gina Haspel answered several questions from senators on the Intelligence Committee about enhanced interrogation tactics used when she supervised one of the CIA's detention centers in 2001. Here is one exchange between Ms. Haspel and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM). Full video here: cs.pn/2K309OL
you know she could just admit she tortured people, and say she regreted it. and i would be ok with that and confirm her. you have said nothing to convince me that indeed your moral compass is strong, quite the opposite. if we want to send a clear message about our moral stance on torture, we don't confirm this woman.
She didn't give an answer about whether she now thought that the CIA's torture program "in retrospect" was right or wrong. Other senators asked her the same question.
CIA should never tell terrorists in advance what it will -- or will not -- do in questioning them. All this moral posturing is absurd.
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Word for Word: CIA Director Nominee Questioned on Torture (C-SPAN)
It’s not a question of morality when you received orders from the President - yes?
As per Hitlers orders. 'It was legal and just following orders'? Where have we heard that before? Seem to me that this defence used in the past ended up on the gallows.
Bingo! Most who have never served will never understand that point.
It is obvious that the plan is to stall, stall, stall, until the senator runs out of time.
I do not believe the CIA director has the luxury of deciding what is and what is not "moral" given only that she follow the law. She is not a judge, and not a litigator. Congress and the supreme court have that responsibility. If she challenges a law, she may request clarification, nothing more.
That really doesn't impress me because she's not the person or people who made enhanced interrogation legal in the first place. It's the House, Senate and former president who made it legal. What's the point in questioning a lower level worker who was just following orders? Who gave the orders?
Boy 15 years ago most people would have agreed to anything for 911 fight back to be done. How some they forget when it’s more convenient for them to judge things by today’s standards. Another day : another time. Not too hard to understand.
A good half of the country knew it was torture and opposed it from the outset, most of the world knew it violated the Geneva Conventions. This is why it was a signature issue for the Obama campaign in 2008. This standard was set in 1949, not 2009. We're not conveniently forgetting history, you are.
Andid, Thank you. Well said.
There is a difference between legal and moral. There is a difference between good and evil. Sometimes Evil is not good but necessary AT THAT TIME. Read Old Testament what by today’s standard was evil and not understood was necessary for the greater good.
Bec B.
I can picture you in a courtroom, using that same argument to convince the judge.
Something like "yes judge, I beat my wife and molest kids, but I read it in the Old Testament, and when I did it it was necessary"
Bec B. The Old Testament is just as credible as the Koran or any other “Holy” text. Why should we base reality off of it?
Sadly it was technically legal. The idea of right or wrong was a privilege not many could afford back then.
She’s clearly not moral.
Is it "moral" to take money from people that earned it, and give it to people that did not earn it?
Where was ur Moral Compass?? Well that was 17 years ago..!!
What An Embarrassment to our Country. She should be put in a Detention Center & Questioned like her “team” did others. NoBueno
Water board Congress so we can get the truth.
she's a fucking soldier
Children learn what they live.
Its not a moral evaluation.
We're were your morals when you made the laws
Mike Blair: Try Spellchek, dummy
It was legal and just following orders? Where have we heard that before? Seem to me that this defence used in the past ended up on the gallows.
I will answer him this way, senator, you are saying that what is legal means not moral? So you mean that us laws are not moral?
yes... US laws are immoral - Patriot act for instance, but who cares... right? The biggest bully in the world can say whatever he wants.... and is always right..... and if you do not understand the difference between legal and moral, you should check YOUR morals....
Sorry. NEXT!! She was/is considered only because Melissa McCarthy can play her on SNL.
She will not answer yes or no!
She just proved to me that she has no morals when it becomes a us versus them situation.
morals are subjective and always changing based on the situation. even if you call them core moral values.
You don't believe in harming and killing anyone, but when faced with a choice that could make you and or force you to do something you normally would not. A straight yes or no moral question goes out the window for most all humans with a conscious in certain conditions.
If a person you know is suffering from a mental illness, obviously not their fault, is about to kill your child, what would *you* do MrRedThief?
True Conservative Even the military does not require a soldier to obey an illegal order. Only a Trump supporter believes integrity is fluid. Doing the right thing can be hard. Always do the right thing.
that guy Does your logic apply to an undocumented immigrant who would do anything to keep their child safe.
We are at war with ruthless individual's and ideology. The only thing these people we are fighting understand is brute force. You have to make war so deadly and horrific so as to prevent them because the outcome would be so terrible they do not wish to fight
Asking the CIA director to tell what she thinks....lol..great job tell them nothing
Belief Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times at Diego Garcia. If you were waterboarded 183 times, you probably admit to being the 9/11 mastermind, too.
Camilo Tapia Einstein, we knew his role. We needed his network. Democrat looser.
She's more suited for The Hand Maidens Tale.
Someone who did terrible things because they were 'just following orders' doesn't deserve to hold high office.
Kenneth Alford you speak the truth
'just following orders' The last time that defence was used it ended up on the gallows.
Kenneth Alford: Kind of like Hillary's lawyer friends telling her she better dump 33,000 emails.
but but it was legal. Murica.
Just fyi, Trump is president. Try to focus.
Moral compass? Ask John Brennan
What a creepy woman.
What do you guys think the CIA does? Lol! If you ask me they aren’t torturing these guys enough
Have you seen the A-Z alphabet on CIA torture techniques? They seem perfect and scary
tell them chumps to keep pushing....and see what they wind up with
Belief in law is all thats required. Action not belief. Democrats and feelimgs
Of course it was good to do it, they were dealing with animals!
Oh they were? And you know that for a fact that each case before them was like that? That each person they captured to do this on deserved every bit of it? Do you know anyone who they decided to grab? If not, how can you blindly trust that?
Tell me it's legal, I'll do it. Legal = Moral 😉
Kathleen Hernandez then Roy Moore has the moral high ground as a man who makes the laws and defines morals
Twilight Gardens presentations, I was just giving the definition implied here, not mine. I think if you were part of torture your done. If you were associated with KKK, Banned For Life Banker, or Top medical surgeon should not be in charge of HUD. Evidently anything's possible. The Weather Underground terrorist went on to be professors at universities.
autismtechlife95, HUH?
tough compliant female dog.
"Nasty Woman"
I would like to see senador interrogate the ex-president and now senador of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Velez like this.
İ respect and like this woman God bless you Gina
using euphemisms much?
America, example for the world? Ahahahahaha
Democrats love playing the gotcha game. It doesn't matter what her feelings are, it matters what's legal and what her orders are. If she is instructed by her superiors that the direction she's been given is legal, then she follows it or faces punishment for refusing to comply with a direct order!
Brian Schoen you are absolutely right. I would like to see them interrogate Congress, the House and former presidents who made it legal and put the law into effect. That woman is irrelevant
… apparently you never served.... you are NOT to comply with an ILLEGAL order and torture is illegal... land of the free and home of the brave my a.. - it is laughable when the US is telling China about human rights violations and committing same... or worse... at least the Chinese do not call themselves the greatest country in the world.....
Give the lady a break...if Betsy was nominated and given a pass, so should this lady..
Good God woman! wear some makeup... your poor husband
I don't even like this witch and wouldn't want her around my grown children. Cause you know style over substance every time. Murica.
what values, you Senator don't even respect your own President?
Respect is earned, not given.
She tortured muslims? If we didn't already have a great one, I'd vote for HER for President!!!