In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. Life and politics are getting weirder and weirder. Thanks to Mr. Law school Contracts Did the attorney general get a bit over-enthusiastic and break his contractual agreement?
There are so many questions looming in a bizarre case like this, thanks to the fact such apparently kinky behavior is naturally kept secret. The Haspel nomination is actually a very savvy move on Mr. As a sop for feminists, she thoroughly defended the Bush torture years in her senate committee hearing; everybody knew that the man who nominated her has many times publicly and enthusiastically advocated waterboarding and even worse torture.
Another plus for Mr. Trump, Ms. Under questioning from Democratic senators, she adamantly refused to say torture was immoral, as she assured the Democratic senators she would not reinstate the Bush torture regimen. One question that arose in the New York Times after her hearing has to do with a man, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, and his pregnant wife, Fatima Boudchar, both Libyan dissidents captured by British MI6 agents and rendered in to a CIA black site in Thailand, where they were both tortured for at least two days, which according to the woman, included punching her pregnant belly.
Belhaj said the site Ms. Haspel ran sounds very much like the one he and his wife were rendered to and tortured by black-clad figures in ski masks. Belhaj wondered. We know very little about Ms. Haspel and her career. A friendly senator asked her about family issues and sacrifice in the CIA.
Her answer was not memorable; but according to Wikipedia, her divorce after a decade of marriage to a military man came the same year she joined the CIA. Of course, the holocaust was technically legal, so that kind of argument is widely recognized as garbage — except in the minds of tyrants. But given we live in a moment of runaway selective enforcement up and down the judicial system, people like Gina Haspel are walking around free and touted as great Americans in the highest circles of the imperium.
