Interrogators Blast Trump's 'Clueless' CIA Pick Tom Cotton

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



Tom Cotton, Trump’s reported choice for CIA, mocked the idea that Russia backed Trump—and backed waterboarding. That could make for a tense reception at Langley.

SPENCER ACKERMAN
11.30.17 12:44 PM ET

The Central Intelligence Agency is set to receive an advocate of waterboarding, sweeping surveillance powers, jailing journalists, and conflict with Iran as its next director.

A combat veteran and first-term Arkansas GOP senator, Tom Cotton has wasted little time building his twin reputations as one of the Senate’s hardest hardliners and friendliest Donald Trump allies. In one of his earliest Senate soundbites, he rebuked a Pentagon official in 2015 for the failed plan to close Guantanamo Bay, saying its detainees should “rot in hell.” More recently, he has mocked the idea that Trump colluded with Russia.

Now, following months of whispered reporting, White House chief of staff John Kelly has developed a plan to transition Cotton over to the Central Intelligence Agency directorship—the better to oust flailing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA director and fellow Trump loyalist Mike Pompeo, according to the New York Times.

Cotton’s prospective arrival at the CIA is the latest dalliance with a restoration of torture to the spy agency’s agenda. Trump as a presidential candidate advocated “worse” torture techniques than waterboarding, only to proclaim himself swayed away from torture by the opposition of Jim Mattis, now the defense secretary.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-cia-pick-tom-cotton-blasted-by-interrogators

[Iliyah]

1. I know one thing, Cotton is a warmonger

As I fear, we are closer to a major conflict.

[NurseJackie]

10. And to think that Susan Sarandon* thought Hillary was a "warmonger"... sheesh!

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*along with many others who voted against Hillary because they believed what Sarandon was saying.

[dhol82]

2. This administration just keeps going deeper and deeper into hole.

Tom Cotton reminds me of the crazy people in Dr. Strangelove.

[Midnight Writer]

6. He's got that Norman Bates stare.

[Chipper Chat]

3. you left out the letter 'r'

In the 6th word of your title.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Nicely Done, Chipper!

Funny bit!

[SergeStorms]

4. The Funny Farm continues to hire.....

the absolute worst people possible for the positions he wants them to fill.

The Republicans used to say "give Trump a break, he's on a learning curve and will make some mistakes". Well, he's made nothing but mistakes! There's not one person he's chosen that can adequately fill the position they've been chosen for.

The abject STUPIDITY that washes from this administration never ends.

[blueinredohio]

5. If they get rid of Tillerson Putin is gonna be PISSED

[JI7]

7. Trump may have gotten an ok to replace him with pompeo

[democrank]

8. Cotton is a walking danger zone

unfit for CIA.

[EarthFirst]

9. It seems that the only qualification for these high-level positions...

Is a mere desire to watch the entire place burn to the ground; and a willingness to light the match that ignites the blaze.

[Javaman]

11. in other new:

woody woodpecker has been tapped to lead the house ways and means committee.

that is all.

[maxrandb]

12. Cotton is the "Peter Principle" on steroids

A complete and total idiot, with the intelligence of a turnip, parlaying his time in the military into a career in politics.

There are a shit-ton of folks who have risen to the level of their incompetence, simply because they wore a uniform.

As we would say in the Navy; "this man suffers from delusions of adequacy"

[Gothmog]

13. I have never been impressed by Cotton

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[JCMach1]

14. Tom Cotton legend in his own mind...

One of THOSE

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Geez, What A Guy!

Man, just the description of him informs me he is eminently punchable.