{"id":177055,"date":"2020-01-09T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/09\/why-you-dont-hire-or-promote-torturers\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:24:00","slug":"why-you-dont-hire-or-promote-torturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/09\/why-you-dont-hire-or-promote-torturers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Don&#8217;t Hire or Promote Torturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Buried in this story is an example of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/08\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-suleimani.html\">just how toxic CIA torturer Gina Haspel is as head of the CIA<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>The CIA torture fetishists are not realists, nor do they show competence or perspective.&nbsp; Rather, they spend their lives trying to force the world to comply with their own paranoid and twisted version of reality. (Paraphrasing from an online post, whose sourc I cannot find)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Appearing on a video screen was Gina Haspel, the C.I.A. director, who was monitoring the crisis from the agency\u2019s headquarters in Northern Virginia. In the days before General Suleimani\u2019s death, Ms. Haspel had advised Mr. Trump that the threat the Iranian general presented was greater than the threat of Iran\u2019s response if he was killed, according to current and former American officials. Indeed, Ms. Haspel had predicted the most likely response would be a missile strike from Iran to bases where American troops were deployed, the very situation that appeared to be playing out on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Though Ms. Haspel took no formal position about whether to kill General Suleimani, officials who listened to her analysis came away with the clear view that the C.I.A. believed that killing him would improve \u2014 not weaken \u2014 security in the Middle East. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why Obama should have jailed CIA torturers instead of promoting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in this story is an example of just how toxic CIA torturer Gina Haspel is as head of the CIA. The CIA torture fetishists are not realists, nor do they show competence or perspective.&nbsp; Rather, they spend their lives trying to force the world to comply with their own paranoid and twisted version of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[370,364,589,411,414,406,372,403],"class_list":["post-177055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-evil","tag-insane","tag-iran","tag-psychology","tag-stupid","tag-torture","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}