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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @04:08AM
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.
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Senator Paul Wellstone had so much empathy that the GOP made sure he died in a plane crash.
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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.
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