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Veteran spy Gina Haspel will become the first female director of the CIA after six Democrats joined Republicans in a Senate confirmation vote that overrode concerns about her role in the spy agency's harsh interrogation program after 9/11.
Thursday's 54-45 vote split both parties, and the margin was the closest for a CIA nominee in the nearly seven decades that a nod from the Senate has been required. Haspel, who has spent nearly all of her 33-year CIA career in undercover positions, is the first career operations officer to be confirmed since William Colby in 1973.
Haspel, 61, is a native of Kentucky but grew up around the world as the daughter of an Air Force serviceman. She worked in Africa, Europe and classified locations around the globe and was tapped as deputy director of the CIA last year.
Source: Fox News
Also at the New York Times, CNN[warning: autoplay video], and Vox among others.
(Score: 1, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday May 19 2018, @09:33PM (4 children)
She will help fight Islam, which is well known for supporting female genital mutilation, the one thing worse than the prospect of atomic weapons being used on a global scale, I'm sure, in addition to killing lots of brown skinned misogynists. I'm certain the black sites only torture men, so there shouldn't be a problem for feminism here.
Explain to me how Gina Haspel is any worse of a person than Hillary Clinton. Feminists still have not gotten over She Lost, as evinced by their anti-democratic, sexist abrogation of due process and presumption of innocence called #MeToo, so I do not see how an equally vile person unlocking a "first female xyz" achievement is not something to celebrate.
Is there something different about the "first female head of state" achievement that allows us to celebrate even if the person who unlocked it is a vile, inhuman monsters? (Truth be told, I was not aware that any of the "first female xyz" achievements required the person unlocking them to pass some kind of minimum moral standard.)
Or are you just a filthy rapist incel? Truth is, it really sounds like you're an incel who hates women because you can't get laid.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @09:41PM (2 children)
That's quite a high standard you have there. She's evil, but she's no more evil than that other person over there! Wow. That makes me feel so much better. Thanks, you moron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @01:05AM (1 child)
I hope you're not a feminist, AC. Otherwise you might sound like a total hypocrite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @02:45AM
That depends on your definition of "feminism," since there are different kinds. And I hope you're not trying for a tu quoque fallacy.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:21PM
Uhh...Kurenai? I was never an "incel," am not aware of women ever calling themselves that in the first place, and have not been celibate/single since 2006. At least get your insults right; I'm supposed to be a, what was it you called cis women, "superior beings" with a helping of snark? "Cisgender hunnies?"
Shit, I give up. You're a walking, talking argument for the TERF agenda, and you do more to hurt your own cause and your own chances of properly finishing transition and having a normal life than any number of abusive assholes at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Congratulations on that, Kurenai. It takes a special kind of self-hating insanity to hate and hurt yourself more than people who outright think you're insane. Go fuck yourself. Man or woman, you're a piece of shit, and just like Caitlyn Jenner, a shiny new set of boobs won't make you less of a piece of shit.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...