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To: Land Shark who wrote (1069472)	5/15/2018 9:47:12 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Recommended By Heywood40 Respond to of 1572946

When you fellows start taking Trump refugees, maybe I'll head north..

To: Land Shark who wrote (1069472)	5/16/2018 1:54:28 AM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572946

Dems love an apology from a torturer. Lipstick on a pig. sick, twisted, war loving, murder loving hypocrites. Corporate loving Republicans in political drag. ===== Haspel secures enough Senate support for confirmation as CIA director Sens. Warner, Heitkamp and Nelson moved to the yes camp after Haspel more strongly disavowed the agency’s past interrogation program. By ELANA SCHOR 05/15/2018 03:05 PM EDT Updated 05/15/2018 06:10 PM EDT Gina Haspel on Tuesday locked in the necessary support to become President Donald Trump's next CIA director, winning over three crucial Democratic senators as she disavowed the spy agency’s past use of brutal interrogation tactics. Minutes after Haspel secured the backing of the Senate intelligence committee’s top Democrat, Mark Warner of Virginia, she received an endorsement from Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who faces a difficult reelection in November. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), also battling to keep his seat this fall, followed soon afterward in announcing his support. The one-two-three punch of Democratic buy-in effectively ensures Haspel’s confirmation as soon as Thursday despite a handful of still-undecided senators in both parties — not to mention a vocal push to defeat her by liberal and civil rights activists. Haspel herself helped deflate the left’s campaign to reject her over her central role in the CIA’s post-Sept. 11, 2001, interrogation program on Monday by sending Warner a letter that portrayed the program’s use of torture against detainees as a mistake. That gesture to Warner, going beyond Haspel’s more cautious denunciation of CIA interrogations during her confirmation hearing last week, smoothed over his concerns even before he publicly endorsed her.