Morning Jolt: Gina Haspel Is a Competent Nominee. We Need More of Them.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day Eve!

Don't Bork Competent Nominees.

The boss, writing about the administration's nominee to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel:

No one doubts her professionalism, and she's been endorsed by Obama intelligence officials. Yet Gina Haspel's long career at the agency, including extensive work undercover in the field, is getting blotted out by her reported involvement in the CIA's black-site interrogation program, which has become a warrant to say anything about her.

Her critics assert she should be in jail, and the New York Times editorial page wrote about her nomination under the headline "Having a Torturer Lead the C.I.A."

Not to be outdone in demagogic attacks on anyone associated with our national-security apparatus, Senator Rand Paul calls Haspel "the head cheerleader for waterboarding," and claims she mocked a detainee for his drooling. The only problem is that this anecdote comes from a book by a contractor who worked with the CIA, James Mitchell, and it ...

March 16 2018

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Gina Haspel Is a Competent Nominee. We Need More of Them. Jim Geraghty Happy Saint Patrick's Day Eve! Don't Bork Competent Nominees. The boss, writing about the administration's nominee to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel: No one doubts her professionalism, and she's been endorsed by Obama intelligence officials. Yet Gina Haspel's long career at the agency, including extensive work undercover in the field, is getting blotted out by her reported involvement in the CIA's black-site interrogation program, which has become a warrant to say anything about her. Her critics assert she should be in jail, and the New York Times editorial page wrote about her nomination under the headline "Having a Torturer Lead the C.I.A." Not to be outdone in demagogic attacks on anyone associated with our national-security apparatus, Senator Rand Paul calls Haspel "the head cheerleader for waterboarding," and claims she mocked a detainee for his drooling. The only problem is that this anecdote comes from a book by a contractor who worked with the CIA, James Mitchell, and it ... Read More Top Stories Film: Into the Zone Ross Douthat Ross Douthat reviews... Burt Reynolds, All-American Hero Kyle Smith Burt Reynolds, All-American Hero ADVERTISEMENT The Tech Merger Trump Blocked Was Not a Threat to 'National Security' Jibran Khan Block foreign investment in the U.S. through executive order, and half the purpose of corporate-tax reform is... Love, Simon Outs Hollywood's Youth Exploitation Armond White Political contrivance and imitation ruin Berlanti's gay... Much More than Economics Mona Charen Russ Roberts's EconTalk podcast takes the 'dismal' out of the dismal... Is Immigration Good for Immigrants? Luma Simms Some people would prefer to remain safely) in the land where they were... ADVERTISEMENT What NR is Reading Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left Roger Scruton "A masterpiece...[Scruton] neither ridicules nor abuses the writers he considers; he patiently deconstructs them...laying bare their warped assumptions and empty pretensions." — Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal LEARN MORE Photo Essays Blooms of Spring Cartoons of the Day: March 15th, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.