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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday May 19 2018, @06:09PM   Printer-friendly

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.


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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday May 20 2018, @02:26AM (3 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday May 20 2018, @02:26AM (#681742) Homepage Journal

    No, I wouldn't say I'm a feminist. I mean, I think that would be, maybe, going too far. I'm for women, I'm for men, I’m for everyone. But I have great respect for women, believe me. I've put women in positions in the Trump Organization, in positions in the White House, in many places where they've never been before. I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women. And Gina will be great. Very easy name to remember!!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:24AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:24AM (#681759)

    I'm for women, I'm for men, I’m for everyone

    Donald J. Trump Sr. is only for himself--first, last, and always.
    He was sent to a military boarding school when he was young.
    During the months that school was out, his mother went to her home country of Scotland--without him.
    His father only cared about money. He was so dishonest that he was hauled before a congressional hearing.
    His grandfather was a pimp. [google.com]

    Their offspring has no empathy because the gene pool from which he oozed had none.
    He, like his forebearers, knows only self-centeredness.

    If subjected to Room 101, [google.com] I'm quite certain that he would immediately sell out his own children and certainly his wife.

    It won't surprise me a bit when Mueller starts bearing down on him and and he spills his guts about everyone with whom he has ever come in contact.

    Oh, and Donald's mentor was self-hating homosexual Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy's "Jew lawyer".

    ...in case you have wondered why Donald is such a complete moral sinkhole and can look you straight in the eye and lie to you.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 21 2018, @12:11AM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday May 21 2018, @12:11AM (#681994) Homepage

      Good luck getting a politician in power who has any empathy. The ones who do like my former dog Gary Johnson would have just giggled from weed high while selling our workforce out to Mexico.

      Maybe next you're gonna suggest that Linus Torvalds step down because he's too much of a meanie-head.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @04:08AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @04:08AM (#682044)

        Meet Barbara Lee, [ballotpedia.org] who has represented California's East Bay in Congress since 1998.
        Before that, she was in state gov't, serving the same bunch.

        When she's in doubt about how to vote, she asks her constituency.
        As a rule, that isn't necessary (she has empathy in abundance).
        Every time she runs, she creams the competition (no challengers in 2018). [ballotpedia.org]
        The people love what she does.[1] [ballotpedia.org]

        [1] Ballotpedia (and Judgepedia and WikiFOIA) are owned by a Reactionary operation. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [prwatch.org]
        They don't bother to mention all the poison pills that GOPers have inserted into bills.

        .
        Senator Paul Wellstone had so much empathy that the GOP made sure he died in a plane crash.

        .
        President Jack Kennedy was pressing for civil rights and voting rights, was about to disassemble the CIA (assassins) and pull USA out of Vietnam (Imperialist aggression).
        The Reactionaries made sure his head was blown apart in Dallas.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]