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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 14, 2018 11:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Karen Aram <karenaram@hotmail.com><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] Trumps latest appointment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Rand Paul just came out against this very strongly. This is stoppable. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">Frankly, just about anyone leading the CIA is likely to have been involved in torture of one form
or another. Whether through rendition or our usual interventions and training of proxies. However, we are becoming so overt in our illegal and atrocious behavior, that it takes on the veneer of acceptability and normality. This we must resist.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">President Trump has displayed enthusiasm for brutality over the past year. He has told the police to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/us/politics/trump-immigration-gang-violence-long-island.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">treat
suspects roughly</span></a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/us/politics/trump-duterte-phone-transcript-philippine-drug-crackdown.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">praised President Rodrigo Duterte</span></a> of the Philippines
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">But one of his most unsettling beliefs is still his acceptance of the value of torture. “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/01/26/cable-exclusive-president-trump-sits-down-with-sean-hannity-at-white-house.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">In
my opinion, it works,</span></a>” he told Sean Hannity of Fox News early last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Previously, anyone alarmed by Mr. Trump’s cavalier embrace of government-sanctioned cruelty was reassured by his vow to <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/316542-trump-mattis-will-override-on-torture" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">accept
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Now we have reason to be uneasy yet again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">When it comes to torture, no American officials have been more practiced in those heinous dark arts than the agents and employees of the Central Intelligence Agency who applied it to terrorism suspects
after 9/11. Few American officials were so directly involved in that frenzy of abuse, which began under President George W. Bush and was ended by President Barack Obama, as Gina Haspel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">On Tuesday, in announcing that he had dismissed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and was replacing him with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, Mr. Trump said that Mr. Pompeo’s successor would be his
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">As an undercover C.I.A. officer, Ms. Haspel played <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/cia-deputy-director-gina-haspel-torture-thailand.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">a
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Ms. Haspel ran the first detention site in Thailand and oversaw the brutal interrogations of two detainees, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. Mr. Zubaydah was waterboarded at least 83 times in
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The sessions were videotaped and the recordings stored in a safe at the C.I.A. station in Thailand until they were ordered destroyed in 2005. And who did that? By then, Ms. Haspel was at C.I.A. headquarters,
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">In <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-new-c-i-a-deputy-chiefs-black-site-past" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">2013</span></a>, these activities were of such concern that
Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, blocked Ms. Haspel’s promotion to be head of the agency’s clandestine service. Since then the two have spent time together, leading Ms. Feinstein on Tuesday to
describe Ms. Haspel as a “good deputy” and to say she would wait until the confirmation hearing to make a judgment on the appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Senator John <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/gina-haspel-senate-confirmation/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">McCain</span></a>, Republican of Arizona and a former
prisoner of war, insisted that during the confirmation process, Ms. Haspel must “explain the nature and extent of her involvement” in the interrogation program. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, said her roles overseeing the waterboarding of detainees
and the destruction of tapes were troubling. He and the American Civil Liberties Union called for Ms. Haspel’s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/gina-haspel-senate-confirmation/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">C</span></a><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/gina-haspel-senate-confirmation/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891">.I.A.</span></a><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/gina-haspel-senate-confirmation/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#326891"> records
to be declassified </span></a>as part of her nomination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The use of torture and secret foreign prisons — think of the deeply disgraceful events at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq — was a boon to terrorist groups, helping their propaganda and recruitment efforts. Such
activities were also an irritant to key allies and even put American forces and personnel at risk of legal liability and being subjected to harsh treatment when they are detained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Ms. Haspel is reportedly respected by many C.I.A. agents. But she effectively ran an illegal program, and her promotion to such a top administration position, unless she forcefully renounces the use of
torture during her confirmation hearing, would send an undeniable signal to the agency, and the country, that Mr. Trump is indifferent to this brutality, regardless of what Secretary Mattis believes. Members of Congress and public interest groups need to stand
up and make clear that, otherwise, the appointment is wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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