trump's support will be enough for easy confirmation but what does have to see what happens if gina housefull has had practically every senior position in the cia's headquarters she's currently the acting director of the cia i knew her when she was the chief of staff in the counterterrorism center she's been in the senior intelligence service for decades but i think that she's not qualified to lead the cia because the actions that she took during the dark period of the cia's torture program disqualify her she has been doing literally everything she can think to do other than. telling the truth about the cia's torture program to get this job gina haskell had the opportunity to say the right thing that this was a dark period in u.s. history people made mistakes the program was immoral it was illegal it was unconstitutional she never said any of that protests decrying torture and hospitals nomination of her cia chief were also staged outside and we asked people on the street what they think about the pros and cons of torture. is it moral to torture no no i don't play so immoral immoral it's pret

former cia officer rethink you so much for joining us today now do you think the appointment of gina housefull as cia director is a worse than our former d.c.i. john brennan who was deputy executive director of the cia overseeing many black sites while she was only overseeing one now wasn't she just following orders when administering enhanced interrogation techniques. well the choice my german friends would would say it's a choice between pest. played caller ok now john brennan. he was on the routing for all the torture memos ok he publicly defended kid and while we say rendering kidnapping people off the streets of europe and sending them to the egypt since he was fully cognisant of thing now with respect to gina house bill we know she was actually supervising the torture at that base in thailand and when. senator ron wyden asked her at the hearing just a week ago were you there supervising the top he said the waterboarding of of all machinery she said. senator that's that's classified. and he was out of town out of town so you know and he should have what he would have asked those who will

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helps that genius was a woman but you can't have an unqualified woman the reason that they picked gina housefull is the very fact is she is a woman trump administration use those floyds to push a no torture the things that isis did where they were beheading and doing all the things that they were doing are no different under international law and human rights as what gina aspel was doing we should denounce or at every opportunity. the disputed territory of the golan heights on the border between syria and israel is on high alert israeli military claims iranian forces based in syria have launched twenty missiles at their positions there are also reports israeli air forces have returned fire the area has been a point of contention for decades between syria and israel locals were warned in advance to take refuge in bomb shelters engines optimistic creases don't come by nuns the u.s. would withdraw the iran nuclear deal. more news at the top of the. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then

senators to vote against her appointment however president trump who hand-picked gina housefull for the job has openly backed the torture tactic now waterboarding has been used by the cia despite being considered torture under international law it can cause serious damage to internal organs or death if the process is prolonging and we discussed the waterboarding video with a former guantanamo detainee who says it doesn't matter what one's thoughts or thinks it still amounts to torture. many people can withstand different types of torture for example i know a individual might be able to bear the pain of having his on twisted or having that feeling they'll pull that compared to others who can't but it's not based on the individual's ability to be able to take that torture or not it's according to the definition of the law international more interesting to just recently the two people captured by the syrian defense forces who are alleged to be water who have that if you want to avoid it it happed if they're american captives for isis also water that. they have to so here the americans are

that gina as well as a woman but you can't have a qualified woman the reason that they picked gina housefull is the very fact is she is a woman trump administration use those points to push a no torture the things that isis did where they were beheading and doing all the things that they were doing are no different under international law and human rights as what gina aspel was doing we should denounce or at every opportunity i'll be back with the headlines in just over half an hour maybe more of a story called. welcome to mexico as are plentiful survival guide. looking forward to the year that's the. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain delicacy you watched as a report. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education its high education is becoming just another product that can be pulled on the sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you good. luck with these souls the kind of fellow they couldn't . want is the place of students in this b

democrats on that committee who are saying that they were friends with gene asked passible gina housefull is a torturer she's a she struck fear into people's lives in black sites in thailand and who knows elsewhere and the people that sit on this committee should not cozy up to this person she should be retired she should be given her pension and shunned these if she was going on the nurnberg defense where she was she was told by others that she had the right to violate the human rights of these people and waterboard them we don't know how many times and destroy the evidence this woman should be jailed and not rewarded song of fortune to be run out of time. coming on the speak to his tongue barry code pink activists many thanks and that wraps things up for they sow say good bye for now join us in half an hour for the latest. you. get with. bankers survival it looks like you just go to the store simply believe. it will be there you don't get it. next year it was. good susan repatriations look at the rest in seventy years it will upset their stress record. ministries police forces and city

a valve that the agency would never avert to harsh interrogation methods under her leadership gina housefull facing tough questioning during her senate confirmation hearing because of her role running a covert detention site where waterboarding which is illegal internationally was used senior republican senator john mccain as urged his call heads to reject or driven or if you're just joining us here at the w. here's one of the stories we're following for you three american prisoners released by north korea have deplaned at andrews air force base where u.s. president all from greeted them the prisoner release comes during the build up to a storage summit with the u.s. the trio includes a christian missionary and two men arrested while teaching at the foreign funded yang university of science and technology the men spent one to two years in north korean prisons for alleged and he stayed until the. president from describe their release as a very exciting and as a gesture of goodwill on behalf of north korea. well here's what the president had to say as the three men arrived home. my proudest ac

trump's support will be enough for easy confirmation but one just have to see what happens if gina housefull has had practically every senior position in the cia's headquarters she's currently the acting director of the cia i knew her when she was the chief of staff in the. counterterrorism center she's been in the senior intelligence service for decades but i think that she's not qualified to lead the cia because the actions that she took during the dark period of the cia's torture program disqualify her she has been doing literally everything she can think to do other than telling the truth about the cia's torture program to get this job gina haskell had the opportunity to say the right thing that this was a dark period in u.s. history people made mistakes the program was immoral it was illegal it was unconstitutional she never said any of that well the most recent post to you suggest that only a third of americans believe that the alleged involvement until what she does render hospital unfit for the post of cia chief paper on the street well i think. no no no please so. immoral it's prett

reports who is gina housefull the intelligence veteran endorsed by six former cia heads to become the agency's next to rector she is not only a highly respected nominee. but she is among the most qualified that will ever serve in that role or as critics have called her the head cheerleader for waterboarding it sends a signal to the rest of the world that we do not value human rights and the people who engage in even the worst acts of torture are supervised people who do so can end up becoming cia director and serve at the highest levels of government house who ran a secret cia prison in thailand after the nine eleven attack under her watch at least one terrorism suspect was water boarded and has pulled later ordered videotapes showing enhanced interrogation sessions to be destroyed a senate report labeled those techniques torture it's very concerning because those of us that worked on the torture report know some things that are classified and. this is an important part of this woman's career the cia has selectively declassified some details on how schools thirty three years working f

former cia officer rethink you so much for joining us today now do you think the appointment of gina housefull as cia director is a worse than our former d.c.i. john brennan who was deputy executive director of the cia overseeing many black sites while she was only overseeing one now wasn't she just following orders when administering and hands. interrogation techniques. well choice my german friends would say it's a choice between pest. plague and cholera ok now john brennan. he was on the routing for all the torture memos ok he publicly defended kid and while we say rendering kidnapping people off the streets of europe and sending them to the egypt since he was fully cognisant of thing now with respect to gina house bill we know she was actually supervising the torture at that base in thailand and when. senator ron wyden aster at the hearing just a week ago were you there supervising the top he said the waterboarding of of all machinery she said. senator that's that's classified. and he was out of town out of town tom so you know and he should have what he would have asked those who will cla

senate confirms gina housefull as the new head of the cia despite widespread concerns about her role in the torture of terrorist suspects. collection we have a good relationship it should mean we have the media going to tell me something comes of it and he'll get protections that will be very strong donald trump urges north korea to strike a deal with the u.s. softer pyongyang's threatens to cancel a summit change your thinking. on europe as legal action to protect firms from u.s. sanctions in a bid to save the iran nuclear deal. you know watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. gina hospital has become the first woman to lead the cia after being approved by the u.s. senate donald trump's nominee won the support of almost all republicans and half a dozen democrats despite her controversial career and role in torturing terrorist suspects r.t. samir khan has more. well even after the commerce controversy the final vote was fifty four yes and forty five nays and this comes a week after she faced some tough questions from the senate intel committ

moment but as let's have a look at those numbers are you related to them most of the support for gina housefull is coming from republicans but she also has the backing of six democrats in the senate i mean does that make her appointment obits that rainy. most of the smart people are saying yes it's all a certain i hold out some degree of hope that out of my faith in the basic decency of american people most of them who know in their heart that torture is wrong and that they will go to their senators and say you know it's wrong you know she did it and she's the worst possible person to head the cia. well she's also said that if she gets to be the head of the cia that torture is a thing of the past but mean could have a say in terms of perhaps an attitude here at perhaps more aggressive approach to counterterrorism issues confirms the cia cheney. well she'll do it she's told to do that sarah she got to where she is so president trump nominated her president trump says you're only a silly torture works and will toward aborting and worse now it doesn't really make any sense to pick somebody who won

let's get the latest now from share of hansie in washington really interesting to hear gina housefull there was she says that basically the morality trumps if you will the legality of things she says even if it was legal she wouldn't now use torture i mean in general how do you think she did under her grilling. well my point it's interesting you say more reality trumps legality however when she was all sed point blank walls the in holmes the interrogation regime put into place its place on the under bush the torture regime was it moral she refused to on some point blank with a yes or no on so she simply would say that she was under her leadership of the cia would never happen again because of her moral compass about's raised a number of questions she refused to answer questions on whether while she was overseeing torture at a black site prison in thailand whether she'd asked for the into homes interrogation regime to expand and to be in homes she would mount so that so there are those questions much of her on the two main issues that have dogged her with torture and destroying evidenc

who is gina housefull the intelligence veteran endorsed by six former cia heads to become the agency's next director she is not only a highly respected nominee but she is among the most qualified that will ever serve in that role or as critics have called her the head cheerleader for waterboarding it sends a signal to the rest of the world that we do not value human rights and the people who engage in even the worst acts of torture are supervised people who do so can end up becoming cia director and serve at the highest levels of government house who ran a secret cia prison in thailand after the nine eleven attack under her watch at least one terrorism suspect was water boarded and has pulled later ordered videotapes showing enhanced interrogation sessions to be destroyed a senate report labeled those techniques torture it's very concerning because those of us that worked on the torture report know some things that are classified and. that this is an important part of this woman's career the cia has selectively declassified some details on how schools thirty three years working for the

so the latest now from share britain in a washington in that little clip we just heard there gina housefull was very clear that she wouldn't use torture no matter even if she was asked by the president himself so tell us what she wasn't so clear about who was being grilled. what she actually believes the problem with her using this nuremberg defense is what she's doing for both of the most contentious issues that surround her surround overseeing torture destroying evidence of torture is her main argument is i was just following orders so when senators were asking about what do you actually think is torture immoral she wouldn't answer point blank when she was asked about destroying the evidence of torture she said he said look we had to protect we had to protect the those doing the torture that was a main concern the one our sexual why don't just pixelate the faces of those people doing the torture so that we did have a record of evidence of what the cia was up to she said well i'm not technical i didn't she distrusted every bit of a part of the concept so there are all these questions which

senate the nomination of gina housefull is controversial in the she's being implicated in the agency's so-called in homs to interrogation program what i guess the of us will. trump's really pushing gina haskell is the perfect candidate strong really strong smart tough and with thirty years of judy behind her so why all the hate one highly respected nominee for cia director gina her support has come under because she was too tough on terrorists think of that in these very dangerous times we have the most qualified person a woman who democrats want out because she is too tough on terror when jeana tough and terrorists meaning she ran a secret cia detention center where she those under her reportedly tortured prisoners by the way the videotapes which allegedly documented some of the most horrific tortures were destroyed by the cia tough woman all right with years of experience in the moral torture and any other reasons to vouch for her there's no one more qualified to be the first woman to lead the cia than thirty plus year cia veteran dina has spoke any democrat who claims to support wom