was doing. is that a safety concern, a danger and when you compare that to what congress wants to know about her time in thailand in the destruction of tapes of interrogation methods and actions, what do you think about that element? well, so i think transparency is always good. obviously, in an intelligence agency where you have someone who has lived a life undercover and a lot of details that maybe they can t share i think it s good they are going back and try to determine are there elements of her life that we can then share and put out there because she is going to become a very public person and leading that government agency. that part i think is good. kind of the selective aof certan stories. i tried to determine what is a best practice? should we as a government agency and u.s. intelligence community be above the fray when it comes to politics, when it comes to, you know, propaganda? i think with some of the tweets what is concerning not only do you see the amplification of
his real concerns about haspel because of interrogation methods used during another, george w. bush administration. how influential might he be? he is still undergoing his medical challenges, while in arizona, but he has already proven to be influential even from afar. what john mccain has to say about national security matters in particular carries a lot of weight and the administration has to work to get haspel confirmed simply because the republicans have a very thin 51-49 majority and they cannot count on all of their members to vote for haspel s confirmation, and i think you re going to see a lot of democrats join with some republicans that are concerned about her role in enhanced interrogation techniques or torture, depending on how you want to look at it. i think on mike pompeo that rand paul will be someone on an
prepared, tillersun will be replaced by mike pompeo who will be replaced at the cia by deputy gina haskell who will be the first woman to end the spy agency and we may not be done. the next shoe to drop will be the department of veterans affairs, and shelton, there are ethical issues. all these changes will require senate confirmation. this might jam up the senate. mike pumpeo has been through the process. gina haskell has not and there may be some issues, the so-called black sides and interrogation methods, all of that will come up in confirmation hearings but this is the team the president wants to have moving forward. thank you for joining us.
freeze until the number of register republicans and democrats on the staff were within 10% of each other. new york magazine was skeptical about the bill, noting that people could simply falsely register as republicans to gain the system. also they expressed concerns about possible follow-up for determining balance. perhaps, using enhanced interrogation methods, but that comes later. a bit of snark from new york magazine to be sure, but it s refreshing to see people on the left making fun of quotas. the bill is ridiculous of course, but it s a brilliant idea. even if it was only proposed for trolling purposes. as dumb as affirmative action for political parties is, in the
on @cnn. i was trying to get to the bottom of the semantic game of media outlets some feeling comfortable in using the l word and others not doing so. can we do another one quickly? nope? okay. we ll do more tweet, i promise you. today president trump reinforced his belief that waterboarding works, but what about the guy who actually helped create and carry out enhanced interrogation methods after september 11th? stick around because you re about to meet him. would i feel strongly about waterboarding? as far as i m concerned, we have to fight fire with fire. i m not into it. i will tell you, though, it works.