"Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!"
- Current Trump Tweet
Haspel ran a "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002. The site was codenamed "Cat’s Eye" and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods. Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a "large box", had his head slammed against a wall and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence.*
Haspel later was the chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez, who headed the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had "drafted a cable" in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand.
* Despite this, he's still been held without trial for 16 years.
So, a very good day for torturers even if Saccone loses.
She did run the "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand, may not have been involved with torture.
Sen. Rand Paul is on Sunday morning TV calling her a torturer and Pompeo a warmonger.
List posted to a forum. Not quite up to date (Tillerson) and not verified by me.
Sally Yates. Fired
Angella Reid. Fired.
James Comey. Fired.
Rex Tillerson. Fired.
John McEntee. Fired.
Preet Bharara. Fired.
Steve Goldstein. Fired.
Mike Dubke. Resigned.
Walter Shaub. Resigned.
Rachel Brand. Resigned.
Sean Spicer. Resigned.
Michael Short. Resigned.
Brenda Fitzgerald. Resigned.
Katie Walsh. Resigned.
Reince Priebus. Resigned.
Anthony Scaramucci. Resigned.
K.T. McFarland. Resigned.
Steve Bannon. Resigned 2 weeks after being fired.
Sebastian Gorka. Resigned.
Tom Price. Resigned.
Carl Icahn. Resigned.
Dina Powell. Resigned.
Rick Dearborn. Resigned.
Omarosa Manigault Newman. Resigned.
Rob Porter. Resigned.
Josh Raffel. Resigned.
Hope Hicks. Resigned.
Gary Cohn. Resigned.
Robert M. Lightfoot (head of NASA). Resigned.
Jeff Sessions. Recusal.
Michael Flynn. Indicted, guilty plea.
Paul Manafort. Indicted.
Rick Gates. Indicted, plea deal.
George Papadopoulos. Indicted, plea deal.
Richard Pinedo. Indicted, guilty plea.
Alex van der Zwaan. Indicted.
Trump aide Nunberg calls Press Secretary a 'fat slob'.
60% of State Department diplomats resign.
Secretary of State calls President of the United States a 'moron'.
* Some moral and intellectual limitations apply. “Best” does not warrant any prior inquiry into spousal abuse. Subject to nondisclosure agreements. Void where indicted.
- Popehat
... The departure of attorney John Dowd comes as the president has personally intensified his attacks on the special counsel and just days after the Trump legal team added a new lawyer, former U.S. attorney Joseph diGenova, who has alleged on television that FBI officials were involved in a "brazen plot" to exonerate Hillary Clinton in the email investigation and to "frame" Trump for nonexistent crimes....
Joseph diGenova doesn't have a Wiki page but his wife, Victoria Toensing, is a a real peach.
... The departure of attorney John Dowd comes as the president has personally intensified his attacks on the special counsel and just days after the Trump legal team added a new lawyer, former U.S. attorney Joseph diGenova, who has alleged on television that FBI officials were involved in a "brazen plot" to exonerate Hillary Clinton in the email investigation and to "frame" Trump for nonexistent crimes....
Joseph diGenova doesn't have a Wiki page but his wife, Victoria Toensing, is a a real peach.
You may not know him, but FriendoFred also supported Fred Thompson.
vicky must pick her men the way trump does - as seen on tv
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
National security adviser H.R. McMaster is leaving President Donald Trump’s administration, the president announced Wednesday. McMaster will be replaced by former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton....
I have despised John Bolton for more than 3 decades.
WASHINGTON — John Bolton, who President Donald Trump said on Thursday will replace H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser on April 9, is a polarizing pick, even by Trump administration standards.
Bolton is a notoriously hawkish former United Nations ambassador whose views don’t even align with the isolationist foreign policy platform on which Trump campaigned ― although it is difficult to tell what the president actually believes....
Bolton fiercely advocated for the Iraq War and promoted the false justification for it....
He has called for bombing Iran and North Korea....
He damaged the United States’ foreign policy reputation while serving as the ambassador to the U.N....
He has aligned himself with anti-Muslim hate groups....
He joked that former President Barack Obama was a Muslim....
I have despised John Bolton for more than 3 decades.
Yup. Trump kept calling the Iraq War the worst decision in the history of the United States. And then hires the guy who shook his pom-poms for it the hardest. And who just a few weeks ago was on Fox News demanding a war with Iran.
He is also in the back pocket of the MEK Iranian terrorist organization, which despite its violent and smelly past has proved so useful to those plotting the apocalyptic destruction of Iran that the Washington elite decided to take it off the list of terrorist organizations in 2012.
Yup. Trump kept calling the Iraq War the worst decision in the history of the United States. And then hires the guy who shook his pom-poms for it the hardest....
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
All former Bush administration officials should have zero standing on Syria. Iraq was a waste of blood & treasure.
12:41 PM - 5 Sep 2013
Some of us objected for 8 years to Obama’s choice to not prosecute the torturers, not only out of a desire for justice but also because of future implications.
considering the tweet Tiffany "liked", she may have quit too.
If Melania were to quit, Trump could have a new bride in time for 2020. A "royal wedding" just before the election would boost his numbers almost as much as a war. How dare Democrats say anything bad about such a sacred event!
Senior administration officials say Shulkin is increasingly on thin ice with President Donald Trump after a bruising internal report found ethics violations in connection with the secretary's trip to Europe with his wife last summer....
President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Wednesday in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the agency, and nominated White House doctor Ronny Jackson to lead the agency.
A Navy rear admiral, Jackson is a surprise choice to lead to succeed Shulkin ...