Political Quotes

“Mr. President, when I was a kid, I used to like to read the comics in the newspaper every day. Usually, it was some interesting caricature of real life that was particularly funny. Yet the sorts of caricatures we have been seeing in the past few days about the President's nominee to the CIA are not funny and are not comical at all. What we have seen is a gross caricature of this woman's distinguished 33-year career. I am talking about Gina Haspel at the CIA. Our Democratic colleagues are stuck in the past. They are trying to, really, tag her with some of the more controversial episodes during the aftermath of 9/11. The fact is, that is a caricature of her three decades of hard work and service in spanning the globe while working in the intelligence community and trying to keep America safe. They, of course, need to get their facts straight regarding the episodes they complain about. The fact is that they have all been investigated, and Gina Haspel has been exonerated. They are wrong to ignore everything else she has done in her career, as well as the fact that she will be the first woman Director of the Central Intelligence Agency--someone enormously popular with the rank and file in her having come from within their ranks. The particular episodes that we will hear talked about tomorrow at the open hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence involve enhanced interrogation techniques that were used in isolated instances in the days immediately following 9/11.…”