You are a torturer!” shouted protesters as they were removed from the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on CIA director-hopeful Gina Haspel. For the rest of us, Haspel isn’t just damaged goods, she’s very much in send-it-straight-back-to-the-shop condition. That’s why they call him Songbird John.” McCain, himself the public face of a vanishing American political civility, knows pain. I, with no physical courage whatsoever, only know how the torture that Haspel defends — she fudged on every answer — was described by its victims. The Japanese were famous for their water torture of PoWs, as famous as the Americans are for water torture at Haspel’s Thailand posting, and years from now, we’ll hear more stories of how Americans were tortured thanks to Haspel.

Source: thestar May 11, 2018 20:03 UTC