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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @10:47PM (4 children)
Doesn't "Nazi gold" ring a bell?
Switzerland gets their dirty work done. They do what is needed to get ahead and stay ahead.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday May 19 2018, @11:14PM
How's that supportive to the idea that "You need war and human rights abuses to be enjoy a high standard of life?" (the "Your freedom to bitch...is created and maintained by battle")
Are you suggesting the Nazi went ahead with WWII because they had the Swiss to store the gold? Or had Switzerland coerced them into starting the war to have the Nazi gold stored there? Or was that gold essential to maintaining the Swiss people "freedom to bitch" - without that gold they would have been... what... a third world country?
Let's take Japan, a country that was raised to the ground in terms of industry and major infrastructure in WWII. Has been neutral since.
For fuck sake, take Germany after WWII - not only their entire economy was destroyed in the war, they needed to pay war reparations too. Have they engaged in war ever since?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:45PM (2 children)
Jesus fucking christ you rwingnuts have the craziest goddamn theories. It would have to have been more gold than exists in the world to prop up Switzerland's economy that much. Basically a few families got rich. How about we point to slavery as the only reason the US is the economic big dog right now? Does that sound reasonable to you?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 21 2018, @12:06AM (1 child)
Well, I will tell you this: If those uppity Blacks start getting reparations, we won't be the economic big-dog for long. I suggest we work with the Jewish media to develop Black Panther sequels and carve out a patch of land in Africa, called Wakanda, where we can resettle our disgruntled Blacks in their own ethnostate and on our dime. Or, we can resettle them to Sweden. Either choice would be a better long-term arrangement for America.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @03:24AM
While we're dreaming I'd like to add in opening the 9th circle of hell and putting you through in a box with a big "RETURN TO SENDER".