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Cia it is a yes or no. did extraordinary work to prevent another attack on this country given the legal tools that we were authorized to use. please answer yes or no. senator, what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to. can you please answer the question? senator, i think i ve answered the question. no, you ve not. her lack of clarity made it clear for at least one republican senator. in a statement last night, john mccain asked his fellow senators to reject haspel s nomination. he called her a patriot but said her refusal to acknowledge torture s immorality is disqualifying. like many americans, i understand the urgency that drove the decision to resort to so-called enhanced interrogation methods after our country was attacked. i know that those who used enhanced interrogation methods and those who approved them wanted to protect americans from harm. i appreciate their dilemma and the strain of ....
That s how i put it. what do you make of her refusal to say that torture is immoral? well, i mean, look. it is a complicated question. i can tell you what i think but i mean you know, had the question been asked of me, honestly what i would have said is, because i was there in the middle of things right after 9/11, and i was a key figure, no doubt, in the creation of the program. and going through my mind was the morality and moral imperative to me was to protect our country, protect thousands of people from not getting wiped out again in any murderous attack. that, frankly, was my primary moral motivation at that point. so i don t know. honestly, i don t know how she feels about it, but that s how i felt. mr. nixon, do you think it is a complicated question? ....
Agency workforce. but there are thousands of people. i know hundreds of people there who are who would also be more than qualified. i happen to think gina is exceptionally well qualified, but, sure, she s not the only one. mr. nixon, part of the issue that democratic senators had was asking her what she would do if president trump asked her to do something immoral, to do torture. he has said on the campaign trail that he s all for waterboarding, he thinks we should do it, and worse, he thinks it works. today dick cheney came out and said the same thing, it works, it should not have been stopped. she kept falling back on the army field manual which defines it as illegal and saying that that s what she believes the moral standard defined by the law falling back on those more legalistic answers. are you confident that she would not torture if the or allow torture, inhansed interrogation, ....
not at all. it is a yes or no answer. yesterday all i heard was a nominee giving evasive, scripted answers and a nominee and an agency who are doing their utmost to minimize her role in order to get her confirmed. mr. rizzo, one more question to you on this same topic. the republicans say it s just not possible to find somebody more qualified at the cia who wasn t involved in any way with torture. or with the enhanced interrogation program, if that s how you would like to define it. is that fair to say? there s no one else at the cia who can run the cia, that s qualified to do it, that doesn t have this mark on their record? no, i wouldn t say that. hundreds of people during the course of the seven-year period were involved in the program in one way or another. so it was a good chunk of the ....