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hello I am processing my outrage at @SenateDems over their failure to vote together and #BlockHaspel and I think I'm going to tweet one fact from the torture report for every Democrat who comes out in support of Haspel is anyone with me on this
OK, here we go.
A favored tactic of the CIA was to tell detainees they would kill their children or rape their mothers in front of them. (pp.4, 70, 487) This happened in the site Haspel oversaw.

@Sen_JoeManchin was the first Dem to support Haspel: thehill.com/homenews/senat…
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Gina Haspel should answer three key questions:
1. What was the extent of her involvement in torture?
2. Why did she sanction the use of torture?
3. What is her current view on torture—and how will this affect her decision-making as CIA director?
crooked.com/article/grill-…
More than 100 former U.S. ambassadors, including @SamanthaJPower, have signed a letter urging the Senate to reject Gina Haspel's nomination if the record demonstrates that she played a role in torture or other forms of detainee abuse: humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/… #BlockHaspel
"It would send a terrible signal to confirm as the next Director of the CIA someone who was so intimately involved in this dark chapter of our nation’s history." — 100+ retired military leaders on why the Senate should #BlockHaspel: humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/…
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