Haspel Is Not The Problem. The Central Intelligence Agency is the Problem. By Ron Paul!!
(2018-05-22 at 16:39:53 )

Haspel is Not the Problem. The Central Intelligence Agency is the Problem. by Ron Paul

As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it is best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice presidents enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as Central Intelligence Agency director but of the torture program she oversaw should tell us all we need to know about Haspel.

Saying that Haspel would make a great Central Intelligence Agency director, Cheney dismissed concerns over the Central Intelligence Agencys torture program. Asked in a television interview last week about the program, Cheney said, "if it were my call, I would do it again."

Sadly, the majority of the United States Senate agreed with Cheney that putting a torturer in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency was a good idea.

Only two Republicans - Senators Paul and Flake - voted against Haspel. And just to confirm that there really is only one political party in Washington, it was the "yes" vote of crossover Democrats that provided the margin of victory. Americans should really be ashamed of those sent to Washington, D.C. to represent us.

Just this month, the New York Times featured an article written by a woman who was kidnapped and send to the secret Central Intelligence Agency facility in Thailand that Haspel was said to have overseen.

The woman was pregnant at the time and she recounted in the article how her Central Intelligence Agency torturers would repeatedly punch her in the stomach. She was not convicted or even accused of a crime. She was innocent. But she was tortured on Haspels watch.

Is this really what we are as a country?

Do we really want to elevate such people to the highest levels of government where they can do more damage to the United States at home and overseas?

As the news comes out that Obama holdovers in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency infiltrated the Trump campaign to try and elect Hillary Clinton, President Trumps seeming lack of understanding of how the deep state operates is truly bewildering.

The United States increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who is in charge.

But instead of condemning the Central Intelligence Agencys role in an attempted coup against his own administration, Trump condemned former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan for "undermining confidence" in the Central Intelligence Agency.

Well, the Central Intelligence Agency did not need John Brennan to undermine our confidence in the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Agency itself long ago undermined the confidence of any patriotic American. Not only has the Central Intelligence Agency been involved in torture, it has manipulated at least 100 elections overseas since its founding after World War II.

As President Trump watched Gina Haspel being sworn in as Central Intelligence Agency director, he praised her: "You live the Central Intelligence Agency. You breathe the Central Intelligence Agency. And now you will lead the Central Intelligence Agency," he said. Yes, Mr. President, we understand that. But that is the problem!!

The problem is not Haspel, it is not John Brennan, it is not our lack of confidence. The problem is the Central Intelligence Agency itself. If the president really cared about our peace, prosperity, and security, he would take steps to end this national disgrace. It is time to abolish the Central Intelligence Agency!!

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