The incessant smear campaigns by the progressive socialists must stop. It is apparent that this is the weapon of choice among the leftists who inhabit the Deep State and the media. The fact that they act the way they do, venturing well outside the rule of law or even basic decency is nothing more than the fact that they feel morally superior and indispensable. The morality of the past and the affirmation that people can disagree civilly is now gone. Any deviation from moving forward to make the world as they want it must be destroyed and any means are justified to reach the socialist agenda they are working so hard to achieve.
I spent the better part of a day watching the Congressional committee hearings on the confirmation for Gina Haspel to become the new CIA Director. Lauded by everyone from both sides of the aisle who has worked intelligence, she underwent what should have been an uneventful hearing. The progressive socialists attempted to turn it into a rehashing of the enhanced interrogation techniques used after 9/11. Gina Haspel made no decisions on the use of these techniques, nor did she do the interrogations herself.
Attempting to ensure to show herself as the hard-charging leftist that she is, Kamala Harris made a fool of herself once again. Demanding over and over a yes or no answer to the morality of these interrogation techniques that were legal at the time, she refused to allow Haspel to answer with anything more than yes or no. Anyone with a semblance of intelligence knows that it was not and is not a yes or no question. Questioning the morality of Gina Haspel, a woman who has done far more in service to our country was a disservice to the citizens of this country and was done solely for the purpose on attempting to trash another Trump supporter.
I thought perhaps that the question of morality and answering with just “yes or no” could work in both directions and have formulated some question for Kamala Harris to answer:
Sen. Harris does it show moral clarity to send your trained goons to raid the apartment of David Dalieden, a journalist who investigated the baby part mill that is Planned Parenthood. Are the profits that Planned Parenthood, one of your largest donors a good enough reason to use police-state tactics to attack the press?
Yes or No?
Sen. Harris, can you explain why the Republican tax cuts cause the loss of healthcare but that Obamacare did not? Care to explain why those who don’t have healthcare now that the mandate is no longer being implemented can choose not to have healthcare. Can you explain why Obamacare has such high deductibles and monthly payments that it is healthcare that people can’t afford to use?
Yes or No?
Senator Harris, why did you use the bullying tactics that you did in your attempt to force conservative charities such as the Americans for Prosperity Foundation to give you their list of donors from the confidential Schedule B from their tax returns. And what do you feel gives you the right as Californias Attorney General to fine or deny permits to those charities that did not submit to your coercion.? Do you consider it moral to violate the rights of those you disagree with as the states chief law enforcement officer? Is the message you were trying to send that private citizen can be trampled on with no recourse if you disagree with the agendas that private citizens have?
Yes or No?
Is it morally acceptable to you to lie publicly to state that no Illegal alien has ever raped or killed anyone? On Feb. 5, 2018, you tweeted
“This administration has ignited anti-immigrant sentiment, characterizing immigrants as rapists, murderers, and people who are going to steal American jobs. That could not be further from the truth.”
Do you consider that DACA was an unconstitutional executive order that Obama put in place without consulting Congress, the legislative body that is tasked with making the laws? Do you see the difference between legal and illegal immigrants or is it your agenda to let everyone in and turn California into a third world hellhole like Venezuela?
Yes or No?
Would you explain how you questioned about the San Onofre scandal where you litigated for the CPUC and were criminally investigating the CPUC at the same time, a true conflict of interest? And working with Gov. Jerry Brown refused to release emails and other records until the statute of limitations ran out. And can you explain why these citizens of this state with a $3.4 billion bill in the form of rate hikes?
Yes or No?
Do you consider that sleeping with your boss, destroying marriage and being known as Willie Brown’s “new steady” when he was the Assembly Speaker for California was morally justified? The proven facts that Speaker Brown made sure that you met the right people and got plum jobs that set the course for your political career is moral as well? Was it ethical for Willie Brown to assist you in becoming the first black district attorney in San Francisco, or to be elected fraudulently to become the California Attorney General?
Yes or No?
Should the American people be concerned that, according to the Sturgis-Fellowes Institute you are working with Obama and Nazi collaborator George Soros to steal the Presidential election in 2020? It is a fact that Soros dumped millions into your Senate bid and along with other progressive socialist has assured that you already have a war chest of a quarter billion dollars for your run for President in 2020. Do you think a progressive socialist such as yourself can succeed on the agenda being set for you by Soros and use that identity politics of being a biracial female to push your way into the White House? Or will the fact that you refused to indict One West Bank, a bank that showed Soros as majority shareholder? And will you return the money you received from New York AG Schneidermann and George Soros at a campaign fundraiser in 2011
Yes or No?
Can you explain how you are so concerned about the shooting at Parkland, and the comments you made after the massacre:
“We cannot tolerate a society and live in a country with any level of pride when our babies are being slaughtered.”
What constitutes a baby, high school students are babies according to your comment, but those babies still in the womb can be murdered and dismembered? You have even raised money for those who perform those dismemberments? Can you explain supporting the mutilation of a baby in the womb as being wholly normal or explain how a baby in the womb has no right, but illegal aliens do?
Yes or no?
Sen. Harris, I live in California but if I can find afford a way to do it. I will leave this mounting socialist hell hole you have been a part of growing. What is sad is that many of those on your side of the aisle would be happy to see me leave to make room for your precious illegal immigrants. There are even those who want to make California part of Mexico again in our state legislature. Now, the California State legislature wants to do all they can to ban the sale of the Bible, and replace Washington or Lincolns birthday with May Day, a radical socialist holiday to further indoctrinate the citizens of this state into the socialist lifestyle that you feel we so richly deserve.
The total abandonment of any moral or ethical clarity that is shown by the lawmakers in California has made us the laughingstock of the country. You, Sen. Harris, are part of the destruction of the fabric of what was once a glorious state full of optimism and hope. You and those of the same mindset have given us tent cities and addicts shooting up in the subways and train stations. California will resist, and your “revolution” will founder on the shoals of decency and respect for one another.
Retired military, 20 years of service, retired last April from a warehouse position at NEOPOST. I live is So, California with my wife, two dogs, and one anti social cat. I am a veteran, entrepreneur, writer, and write on the subjects of race, terrorism, the economy, and climate change.
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Democrat, California need to know anything else?
It’s cute when amoral liberals try to bludgeon someone over they head with morality.
The Dumb-O-Crats oppose anyone that don’t belong to the ACLU or any of the other secukarists groups or who would track down terrorists in this nations like BLM,NBPP, and the Democratic Party
WHAT DID ANYONE EXPECT FROM MS. HARRIS? SHE IS A DUMOCRAT FROM LA LA LAND CALIFORNIA WHERE TWINKY BIRD BROWN IS GOVERNOR AND MOVIE PEOPLE BECOME GOVERNOR. I WONDER IF THERE IS A SCRIPT FOR BEING GOVERNOR OR ATTORNEY GENERAL OR EVEN SENATOR. I CALL ALL THREE SENATORS FROM CALIFORNIA THE BOBSY TRIO. TWO SENILE ONES AND ONE WHO THINKS SHE KNOWS IT ALL.
Why use a still image when a video shows so much more?
‘Answer Yes or No’: Kamala Harris Grills CIA Nominee on Whether Interrogations Were ‘Immoral’
Harris was asking for yes or no responses because of Haspel’s evasiveness. The questions, which directly addressed very important points, do in fact have yes or no answers. That Haspel wouldn’t answer them should tell any intelligent person plenty.
Harris doesn’t tolerate bullshit. She knows how to highlight it when it’s present. She does this masterfully. People who are full of it hate her for that.
@Greg:
She seemed evasive because there are no yes or no answers to hypothetical questions with incorrect or ambiguous context. The entire goal of the liberal Democrat’s questioning was to try and get Haspel to denounce the CIA.
As a liberal, she IS bullshit. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be a liberal. The hypothetical questions of her above makes that more than clear and apparent.
The First woman CIA director has been confirmed, she was most likely running the agency anyway.
@Deplorable Me, #6:
“Do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral?” is a totally concrete question that has either a yes or no answer. Either she thinks they were immoral, or she thinks they were not.
Haspel didn’t want to answer the question. Doing so would have revealed something important about her thinking that she wanted to remain hidden. She danced around direct questions like a typical republican politician.
@Greg: WHAT interrogation techniques? There are enhanced techniques that were used on a very limited basis and there are liberal misconceptions and misrepresentations that have been intentionally spread to denigrate the CIA, Bush, the war on terror and the United States as a whole. It was an intentionally loaded and non-contextual question.
@kitt: Women are not women unless they are liberal. Blacks are not black unless they are liberal. Gays are not gay unless they are liberal. Because Haspel did not reside on the liberal plantation, she was opposed because a strong, smart, patriotic, successful conservative woman erodes the liberal ideological narrative. Meanwhile, Kamala the whore represents the liberal woman ideal.
Haspel was Station Chief at a CIA black site in Thailand where prisoners were subjected to “enhanced interrogation.” She oversaw that operation, along with the destruction of evidence of what was done. She won’t make any moral judgement about what was done, because she was part of the doing of it.
That’s who we have just made head of the CIA. And you’re demeaning and condemning a woman who dared to ask her questions about it.
Welcome to Trump’s America. Are we great again yet?
@Greg:
It was an open-ended question with no context designed to get Haspel to denounce the CIA, the intention of which was to use against her in the future, denounce Bush, the CIA and the means and methods that kept us safe. And, beyond a doubt, Harris is a self-serving whore who screws for power.
When Obama ended enhanced interrogation, did he end rendition, where prisoners were sent to sights over which we have no “moral” control? No, he didn’t. He still wanted the dirty work done so he personally wouldn’t suffer the embarrassment to his political career of a terrorist attack, he just wanted “plausible deniability”. You liberals have politics, not morals.
@Greg:
“Do you believe killing unborn babies is immoral, ‘yes’ or ‘no’?”
Do you see the problem with this manner of polar questioning, Greg? The premise is flawed because it’s asked under the assumption that enhanced interrogation techniques equates to torture. That can be argued; but Haspel obviously doesn’t equate EITs this way; which is why she could say she doesn’t believe torture works without hesitation. James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen who designed the CIA RDI program don’t believe in torture either.
If Harris’ purpose is to score political points and virtue signal to her base, then sure. Ask. But if she wants to seriously understand where Haspel is coming from, she would have allowed for elaboration beyond “yes” or “no. The American people deserve the clarity.
So you didn’t watch my video comment in one of my other posts, did you?
Sometimes I wonder if you honestly care about reading and learning from the other side of the political aisle; or if you’re simply here to filibuster your views and never evolve them beyond parroted liberal talking points.
She did not “oversee destruction of evidence”; nor was she even at the Cat’s Eye blacksite when the tapes were destroyed.
Dude- she was not high on the food chain in regards to the CIA RDI program. She wasn’t an architect of the program; not a policymaker; not an interrogator. As much as I can fathom it, she had more of an administrative role.
She made moral judgments. What your side can’t accept is the nuanced positions and the unacceptance of the torture critic’s worldview and premise: That the CIA tortured and used torture techniques and broke laws and destroyed evidence and tried to cover it up.
Haspel, Michael Hayden, Mike Morell all have made statements that have defended aspects of the CIA RDI program, including assertions that it gained valuable information. It’s not a contradiction to do this and in the next breath, claim “I don’t believe in torture”, “In hindsight it was a mistake”, “Trump is wrong on waterboarding” (like the critics are wrong about it) and how CIA interrogations actually operated (critics are also wrong on this). It’s the fevered imagination of Jack Bauer fanboys and political and ideological agenda-driven distortions such as the SSCI Study on the program. The narrative painted by Ali Soufan is full of half-truths, distortions, and falsehoods.
Greg, take your partisan blinders off, please. Honestly. Look at her from a fresh apolitical perspective. Listen to her. She’s about as down-the-middle as you can possibly hope for. 33 years of experience in the CIA- she is vastly qualified! Nothing about her comes across to me as a right-wing shill and torture queen that Code Pink et al make her out to be. There’s no factual basis to those kind of perceptions- just political and ideological partisanship.
She isn’t going to allow the CIA to risk getting thrown under the bus again by getting back into the detention and interrogation business. No way. Democrats who accused the CIA of being risk averse, not challenge any of the EITs at the time they were briefed about them, and who felt “that’s it?!”; and those Democrats like Feinstein who at the time felt like we’d have to start doing things we traditionally haven’t had to do- are cowards. Weather vanes who blow with the fickle, political winds when it suits them.
@Wordsmith:
When it applies to national defense, the left thinks there are clear morals and rules which apply. However, when one of these interrogators has to balance the lives of hundreds of American lives against the “rights” of a known terrorist, the lines get critically blurred. However, ask a liberal when the spark of life exists and abortion is murder and there is no end to the leeway and ambiguity.
@Deplorable Me: Kommiela Hairass is a Marxist/Communist/Socialist, yeah I know all the same damn thing. Something our resident idiot doesn’t quite grasp. She’s proof that a woman CAN f’k her way to the top. I’m waiting for Willie Brown to chime in on her skills because they are the only ones she’s got, besides ignoring her oath of office. Director Haspel is going to be very interesting, my take is she’ll rip your still beating heart out to get her job done, that job being to defend the USA.