I was inside the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters on Sept. 11, 2001. Like all Americans, I was traumatized, and I volunteered to go overseas to help bring al-Qaeda’s leaders to justice. I headed counterterrorism operations in Pakistan from January to May 2002. My team captured dozens of al-Qaeda fighters, including senior training-camp commanders. One of the fighters whom I played an integral role in capturing was Abu Zubaida, mistakenly thought at the time to be the third-ranking person in the militant group.
By that May, the CIA had decided to torture him. When I returned to CIA headquarters that month, a senior officer in the Counterterrorism Center asked me if I wanted to be “trained in the use of enhanced interrogation techniques.” I had never heard the term, so I asked what it meant. After a brief explanation, I declined. I said that I had a moral and ethical problem with torture and that — the judgment of the Justice Department notwithstanding — I thought it was illegal.
Unfortunately, there were plenty of people in the U.S. government who were all too willing to allow the practice to go on. One of them was
Gina Haspel, whom President Trump nominated Tuesday as the CIA’s next director.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...07884e-27f8-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html
The New York Times: Mohammed bin Salman nicknamed in Washington "bone saw"
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...07884e-27f8-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html
Does anyone actually defend these monsters, other than Trump?
Is their any Trump folk here, who want to put their username next to supporting people who literally murder and torture people?
No hyperbole here. Donald Trump, you are a piece of shit, and shame our nation every day you hold office while standing next to the scum of the earth.
Discuss........
