Fox & Friends Defends Trump’s Nominee For CIA Director Over Role in Torture: ‘Doing What She Was Told To Do’
Fox & Friends went to bat on Monday for Gina Haspel — President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA Director who is set to face a challenging Senate confirmation hearing this week — defending the career agent against concerns over her ties to torture.
Haspel’s nomination has been a controversial one, given her job overseeing a “black site” in Thailand after the 9/11 attacks where terror suspects were tortured using techniques like waterboarding and sleep deprivation.
Now serving as deputy director of the FBI, a number of lawmakers have voiced concerns with her nomination, including Sen. John McCain, who called the U.S. torture program “one of the darkest chapters in American history.”
On Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade brought up a recent report that Haspel sought to withdraw her nomination for CIA Director last week, fearing the process would damage her reputation.
From there, the Fox & Friends hosts piled on the love.
Kilmeade asserted that Haspel has “made some of the toughest decisions anyone could make in a very laudatory way.”
“Just keep in mind,” Steve Doocy chimed in. “Whatever she did when she was in power at that point, she was doing it as a directive and it was all within the law.”
“Right, doing what she was told to do,” Ainsley Earhardt concurred.
Kilmeade brought it home with a diatribe arguing Haspel should be proud of her time overseeing a secret prison in which suspected terrorists were tortured:
I believe she should double down and say, “I’m proud of what I accomplished, whether it was black sites, enhanced interrogation, and I dare anyone to sit in my shoes and accomplish as much as I’ve done.” And she could even, if she wanted to, if they could un-classify everything, tell us everything that you were able to pick up, because in Jose Rodriguez’s book, it’s in Jim Mitchell’s book. All the attacks they were able to stop because of some of the of the [unintelligible] they put together. All green-lighted during her 32 year career.
“Think about how far we’ve come to as a country,” Earhardt added. “First female — she will be the first female CIA Director. Pretty cool.”
Watch above, via Fox News.
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