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Overly aggressive, overly zealous enforcer of that policy. >> well, that's a great question. you know in the last month democrats have been pushing hard to get a lot of these cables and internal memos declassified or shared with them in some form so they are not sort of caught off guard later. you know, the comment that i heard from various sources is that we don't want to name a cia director and find out later there was something in the declassified material that we didn't know. i mean, here is what's known. she ran a black site during this period. she was a supporter in the sense that many p...

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 ...

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 t...

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 w...

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 tr...