The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution is the strongest statement therein that powers not expressly granted the State are retained as rights of the People. The State has misconstrued, misrepresented, ignored, and denied the People's rights by elimination of protections reserved alone to them, not recognized by the Supreme Court, the Legislative, and worst the Executive Branch in the illegitimate exercise of draconian powers which unlawfully disparage the inalienable rights of the People.
INVESTIGATING RUSSIAN COLLUSION IN THE 2016 ELECTION
Preliminary Findings About Trump Campaign’s Effort to Obtain Incriminating Information on Secretary Clinton from Russia at Trump Tower Meeting (May 16, 2018)
“The June 9, 2016, meeting is one piece of a much larger puzzle and confirms that the Trump campaign was willing to accept Russia’s assistance. The Committee’s staff interviews reveal that top Trump campaign officials were frustrated and angry that the meeting did not produce enough damaging information on their opponent. Their efforts to conceal the meeting and its true purpose are consistent with a larger pattern of false statements about the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .
The Committee’s investigation remains incomplete, including further review of the June 9, 2016 meeting. Nonetheless, the following preliminary findings are clear:
The Trump campaign was willing to accept Russia’s assistance.
Top campaign officials Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner accepted the offer of incriminating information on the campaign’s opponent from a hostile foreign government.
These Trump campaign officials did not report the offer of Russian assistance to proper authorities.
Top campaign officials made clear their frustration that more damaging information was not produced at the June 9 meeting in Trump Tower.
Donald Trump Jr. and the White House misled the public about the June 9 meeting with Russians and other campaign contacts with Russia.
Several significant questions remain unanswered about this meeting and the numerous other contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian associates.
To read the preliminary findings of the Senate Judiciary Democrats in full, CLICK HERE .
Feinstein to Rosenstein: Protect Special Counsel Investigation (May 21, 2018)
“Allowing the Special Counsel to complete his work, without interference or delay from the President or Congress, is the best way to bring this matter to its conclusion. … We ask that you uphold the integrity of Department of Justice investigations, as you stated you would in your confirmation hearing, and protect information regarding Special Counsel Mueller’s ongoing investigation.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .
Feinstein On Trump, Republican Attacks on Rule of Law (May 23, 2018)
“President Trump’s repeated attempts to undermine Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation are unprecedented. He’s now demanding that the Justice Department convene a partisan briefing to share highly-classified information about an open and ongoing counterterrorism and criminal investigation with Republican members of Congress. This is alarming and threatens the independence of the special counsel.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .
INVESTIGATING REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO STACK THE COURTS
Judiciary Committee Democrats: Republicans Remaking Federal Judiciary (May 10, 2018)
“To fill these vacancies as quickly as possible, Republicans have changed how judicial nominees are considered and weakened the Senate’s vetting process, even diminishing the role of home-state senators by undermining the 100-year old blue-slip tradition. Many of these circuit court nominees are outside the mainstream, in their 40s or have little or no relevant experience. This is a clear strategy to reshape our courts for decades.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .
Key Findings of Senate Judiciary Committee Minority Members on Republican Efforts to Stack Federal Courts (May 10, 2018)
Senate Republicans’ obstruction of President Obama’s judicial nominees provided President Trump an opportunity to dramatically remake federal courts.
To confirm President Trump’s often ideological and even unqualified nominees as quickly as possible, Senate Republicans have undermined the Senate’s advice and consent role.
Having demanded that their blue slips be honored and used the blue slip to block 18 Obama nominees, Senate Republicans eliminated the guarantee that blue slips would be honored for Democrats.
Senate Republicans have pushed two circuit court nominees on hearings, making it more difficult to vet and question them.
President Trump and Senate Republicans have undermined the independent, nonpartisan role of the American Bar Association (ABA) in ensuring judicial nominees are qualified.
President Trump and Senate Republicans are reshaping the nation’s circuit courts at breakneck speed.
President Trump’s circuit court nominees have been far more controversial than President Obama’s circuit court.
President Trump’s circuit court nominees have been young, with more than half in their 40s, allowing them to serve for more than a generation.
Outside and dark-money political groups, including the Federalist Society, the Judicial Crisis Network, and the Heritage Foundation, have been central to the effort to fill vacancies as quickly as possible.
President Trump’s nominees reflect a lack of diversity, with far fewer women and people of color than President Obama’s nominees.
“Everything President Obama has done, this president wants to undo. An agreement that prevents Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one thing that should never be undone. President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the agreement is a strategic mistake contrary to our national security interests.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .
Feinstein: Trump Administration Must Show Support for Two-State Solution (May 14, 2018)
“The location of the embassy is a final-status issue that should have been resolved as part of peace negotiations where both sides benefit, not just one side. Israel will only know true security when it is at peace with its neighbors.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .
Feinstein Votes “No” on Gina Haspel Nomination (May 17, 2018)
“The location of the embassy is a final-status issue that should have been resolved as part of peace negotiations where both sides benefit, not just one side. Israel will only know true security when it is at peace with its neighbors.” To read the full statement, CLICK HERE .
War Criminal Against Humanity Gina Haspel, the president’s torturer nominee to run the C.I.A., offered to withdraw her nomination ahead of what is expected to be a tough confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee after it learns of her crimes.. CIA
War Criminal Against Humanity Gina Haspel’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday was laced with lies and ambiguities about the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program and her misunderstanding of legal limits on the agency’s powers.
"Bloody Gina" War Criminal Gina Haspel’s lead in G.O.P. torture and cover-up has earned a call for her arrest for the rest of her life by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
REPUBLICATION 18 May 2018
Gina Haspel President Trump’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency expected to face tough questioning during her confirmation hearing Wednesday. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
More Than 100 Former Ambassadors Write Letter Opposing Gina Haspel Nomination
The 109 retired and former U.S. ambassadors sent the Senate a letter on 9 May 2018 saying in part that Gina Haspel is "emblematic of choices made by certain American officials that "dispensed with our ideals and international commitments to the "ultimate detriment of our national security."They went on that "[w]hat we do know, based on credible, and as yet uncontested reporting, leaves us of the view that [Ms. Haskel] should be disqualified from holding cabinet rank." Moreover they continued to write that Haspel's connection to torture will be welcomed by authoritarian leaders worldwide, "as it will allow them to proclaim, however cynically, that their behavior is no different from ours." Likewise a retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps General and 60 retired Generals and Admirals wrote a letter opposing Haspel which letter is referenced in more detail with citations below. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ambassadors-letter-oppose-gina-haspel-nomination_us_5af2cdafe4b0a0d601e84b30?with Video Senator John McCain (R-AZ) Chair Armed Services Committee Urges Senators Reject Haspel Senator McCain is suffering from terminal brain cancer but as he was undecided about Haspel he did send 'Bloody Gina' a letter in advance of her hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on her nomination by President Trump to be Director of the CIA. Senator McCain is the only senator who has himself actually been tortured having been subjected to torture during the Vietnam conflict after being shot down on a bombing mission and held over a five-and-a-half-year period by hostile North Vietnamese captors.
After whatever response Senator McCain received or prompted from 'Bloody Gina' Haspel by his letter he also was familiar with her hearing(s) before the Intelligence Committee during which she repeatedly refused to answer senators' questions as to whether she believed the brutal "enhanced interrogation techniques"(torture) such as at the Thai CIA Black Site of which she was in charge and at times immediately present for torture were "immoral."
In his statement linked to in the article here directly below urging his senate colleagues to reject Haspel's nomination, although calling Haspel a patriot he wrote "Ms. Haspel's role in overseeing the use of torture by Americans is disturbing. Her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying." (It is also worth noting that since Senator McCain wrote his statement Ms. Haspel's confusing account as to how she came to write a cable believing another party would decide whether to send it directing against orders the destruction of CIA video evidence of torture which Ms. Haspel very strongly wanted to destroy, that the other party since has contradicted Haspel's account of the circumstances of the resulting destruction of evidence directly against orders.)
John McCain, seen here in a Hanoi hospital as a prisoner of war, was shot down over Vietnam during a bombing mission on Oct. 26, 1967. (AP)
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'Bloody Gina' Haspel it has been revealed sought late the week before her hearing to withdraw her nomination over questions about her role in [an] agency interrogation program," including "to avoid discussing in a public setting her role in the agency's enhanced interrogation program, which many have likened to torture." (The Senate Torture Report as the name suggests HAS FOUND that the CIA interrogation program WAS torture, apart from the Washington Post misleading that some have "likened it to torture" in the article linked to directly below, coincidence or not journalists long have called for the Washington Post as a matter of journalistic integrity to disclose before each article about the CIA that the sole owner of the newspaper Jeff Bezos also has had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of annual contracts with the CIA for information storage which Mr. Bezos has chosen not to disclose with CIA articles.)
Some members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are opposed to Haspel's confirmation as CIA director "particularly over her role in the interrogation program implemented after Sept. 11, 2001, and for refusing to declassify documents related to her tenure at agency." A detainee was waterboarded 183 times over a period of torture when "Bloody Gina" was present until the completely inexperienced CIA torturers thought he was dead as well with waterboarding also being inflicted on a detainee before "Bloody Gina's" arrival at the Thai CIA Torture Black Site during all of which Haspel was in the senior leadership position in the torture program.
Despite being ordered later not to destroy any videotape evidence of the CIA's interrogation program once it was created Haspel nevertheless drafted an order to destroy all the videotape evidence as, to which she later came up with a dubious convoluted story that "she did not think the order would be cabled" unless otherwise ordered.
"But Haspel was a strong advocate within the agency for destroying the tapes, believing that were they to become public and reveal the identity of CIA interrogators [war criminals such as herself committing crimes against humanity] they could face reprisals from terrorists." Others present have said that is why the CIA torturers wore hoods. In any case it is fair to say that "Bloody Gina" Haspel has a lot she wants to keep secret almost twenty years later both from the Senate and the American people. Who although not exactly sure of what war crimes and crimes against humanity she may have committed in the CIA that must be even worse than those already known from the Senate Torture Report and other sources which acts get hard to imagine, that the People's representatives will accept "Bloody Gina's" promises tomorrow that she will not do whatever that was again but will behave herself lawfully as CIA Director and see that the rest of the CIA does the same.
And despite her claims as to why she drafted the cable ordering the destruction of the videotape evidence, she likely has been relieved if the CIA wearing of the hoods was in fact the truth anyway, because if what "Bloody Gina' said was right those vengeful terrorists may have very long memories on the matter as interviews with many CIA tortured innocents in The New York Times suggests the often permanent damage the CIA inflicted on their bodies and minds all to learn nothing valuable at all is not easily forgotten and likely reason enough to become a terrorist if one were not previously, and well now they can just look at the computer, newspaper or tv and there she is for all to see. Lucky for her that as one who is wanted in the World Criminal Court as a war criminal and for crimes against humanity "Bloody Gina" Haspel probably greatly prefers to stay within the relative safety of the homeland, as it were. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/haspel-to-pledge-never-to-restart-cias-brutal-interrogation-program/2018/05/08/7e13166c-530e-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html?
CIA Violates CIA Charter Now Politicizes Intelligence Information To A Congressional Committee Illegally Lies To Congress To Obscure Haspel Central Role As a War Criminal Guilty Of CIA Sadistic Demented Torture Rodriguez Protege "Bloody Gina" Later Wrote Orders For Illegal Destruction Of CIA Torture Video Evidence Now Further Illegally Lying To Congress That This Was To "Protect Identity" Of Torturers Who In Fact Wore Hoods https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/03/the-cias-big-lie-for-gina-haspel/
Former Joint Chiefs Of Staff Marine Corps General 60 Retired Generals And Admirals Oppose HaspelTorture War Crimes As CIA Pulls Out CIA War Criminal Morrell 2011 Selectively Declassified Memo "Discipline Review" Story Haspel Drafted Cable To Destroy Torture Tapes (Evidence Of Her War Crimes) But It Was CIA War Criminal "Reprimanded" Rodriguez Who Sent It He Now Posts "I Was Protecting CIA Torturer IDs And Besides No One Told Me Not To Destroy Evidence" Senators Remain Unmoved Both By Selective Disclosures And Still Huge Haspel CIA Gaps Such As While Heading CIA Torture Thai Black Site https://www.apnews.com/35efde6fdc714b379536fc60cfc05e4f/Probe-clears-Haspel-on-destruction-of-waterboarding-tapes
Listen to ‘The Daily’: The Shadow of Torture (8 September 2018)
The C.I.A. is waging a campaign to make Gina Haspel its next leader. Why do its officers see her controversial past as her greatest asset?
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Haspel Cannot Present Her Passport For Travel Outside Of U.S. Except As Her Passport To Hell "And Ye Shall Know The Truth, And The Truth Shall Make You Free" -- John 8:32
War Criminal Gina Haspel in October 2017.Creditvia YouTubeWar criminal Gina Haspel, nominee for CIA director to succeed Mike Pompeo, speaks at the 2017 William J. Donovan Award Dinner, hosted by the OSS Society, on Oct. 21, 2017 in Washington. (Photo courtesy of The OSS Society)
President Trump on Tuesday nominated CIA veteran war criminal Gina Haspel to be the spy agency’s next director, tapping a woman who spent multiple tours overseas and is respected by the workforce but is deeply tied to the agency’s use of brutal interrogation measures on terrorism suspects in crimes against humanity. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) She actually is despised by the majority of the intelligence community who call her the “Wicked Witch of the West, without the charm.” "To really appoint the head cheerleader for waterboarding to be head of the CIA. I mean how could you trust somebody who did that to be the head of the CIA." -Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will oppose her nomination.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) the most familiar member of Congress with torture as he was subjected to years of torture as a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war has submitted a letter of questions to war criminal Haspel referred to above. Senator McCain previously was undecided as was Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee as to whether each would oppose war criminal Haspel's nomination to be Director of the CIA although Senator McCain per the above has come out against Haspel's nomination urging fellow senators to reject it.
"Her experience may have served her well as deputy, but the top position is another matter entirely." -Senator Dianne Feinstein who has asked that all of the 2014 Senate Torture Report related to Haspel's role in torture be declassified. Senator McCain has requested that the remainder of the 2014 Senate Torture Report be declassified.
Senator Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) the Intelligence Committee's vice chairman, told Haspel in a letter this week that her recalcitrance was "unacceptable."
War criminal Gina Haspel is Trump's new pick for director of the C.I.A. From 2003 to 2005, she oversaw a top-secret C.I.A. program that subjected dozens of suspected terrorists to sleep deprivation, squeezing them into coffins, and forcing water down their throats.
War criminal Gina Haspel was a central figure in one of the most illegal and shameful chapters in modern American history. She was up to her eyeballs in torture: both in running a secret torture prison in Thailand, and carrying out an order to cover up torture crimes by destroying videotapes.
The CIA must declassify and release every aspect of Haspel's torture record before considering the nomination.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was captured in 2003, wants to share “six specific paragraphs of information” about Gina Haspel, President Trump’s pick to lead the C.I.A.
