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Newly released declassified documents prove once and for all that CIA Director Gina Haspel oversaw torture in Thailand, which the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee knew all along, as Ray McGovern explains. Consortium NewsSenator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture Ray McGovern, former US Army Infantry/Intelligence officer and 30 year CIA veteran analyst, including Presidential briefer from 1981 to 1985See alsoIntel TodayCIA & Torture — Gina Haspel Thailand Cables...

Double standard of justice?CounterpunchTwo Interrogations, Gina Haspel and Adolf Eichmann Brian Terrell, co-coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence

Gina Haspel is just the type of status-quo choice that Donald Trump promised not to make. She’s not a swamp-drainer. She’s a swamp thing. Trump doesn't have what it takes to confront the US siloviki. LobeLogThe Banality* of Haspel John Feffer* "Banality" is an allusion to Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil.

The narrative now is "Assad cannot be allowed to normalize use of chemical weapons."The US has already normalized the use of torture and illegal aggression.FiredoglakeWho’s Who Of American War Criminals And Torture Apologists Endorse Gina Haspel For CIA Director Kevin Gosztola | managing editor of Shadowproof Press and producer and co-host of the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure"

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche expressed the cautionaryadmonition: “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.” Too often, we have ignored that warning. Gina Haspel’s defenders assert that her behavior conformed to procedures that senior CIA officials (and presumably the Bush White House) had approved. The international community rejected the “just following orders” defense that defendants invoked at the Nuremberg trials. Haspel’s defense is no...

The protection of those who commit heinous crimes in the name of the U.S. government (by the government in whose name the crimes are committed) provides a dangerous precedent and could lead to the conclusion by many in the military and CIA that they can “get away with murder.”  The sad history of our country is that murders and executions (remember the extrajudicial drone assassinations ordered by Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump) are acts that continue to be the policy of our country....

More denial that international law and the Nuremberg precedent apply to US officials "just carrying out orders."International law only applies to "them" and not to US. (pun intended)It's clear that the US intelligence services need to be purged of this rot. Intel TodayFormer CIA Robert Baer : “Gina Haspel Used To Work For Me. She’s A Great Choice For CIA Director.” LSee also at Intel TodayFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy Arrested Over Gaddafi Campaign Financing

Nothing will say more about who we've become as a nation than if a torturer is allowed to head the CIA. Sums it up. It's bad now, and her nomination makes it worse. But her confirmation and occupying office would be the icing on the cake.Kills US soft power. It's a gift to enemies of America, too.The American ConservativeGina Haspel: As If Nuremberg Never HappenedPeter Van Buren, 24-year State Department veteran

The claims were retracted by ProPublica in an embarrassing correction. On Feb. 22, 2017, ProPublica published a story that inaccurately described Gina Haspel’s role in the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al-Qaida leader who was imprisoned by the CIA at a secret “black site” in Thailand in 2002. The story said that Haspel, a career CIA officer who President Trump has nominated to be the next director of central intelligence, oversaw the clandestine base where Zubaydah was subjected...

DURING THE NUREMBERG TRIALS after World War II, several Nazis, including top German generals Alfred Jodl and Wilhelm Keitel, claimed they were not guilty of the tribunal’s charges because they had been acting at the directive of their superiors.Ever since, this justification has been popularly known as the “Nuremberg defense,” in which the accused states they were “only following orders.” The Nuremberg judges rejected the Nuremberg defense, and both Jodl and Keitel were hanged. The United...