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In reply to the discussion: If Feinstein votes to confirm Haspel [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)on this subject, and neither of us do, I suggest not embracing ignorance over knowledge, and certainly not in hopes of virtue. A huge part of being profoundly ignorant, not educating ourselves, and of dismissing the decisions of those who are not, is that we can't know if what we're doing is right or not.
Btw, I will support Feinstein's decision because she's a liberal Democrat and because of her history and the histories of other Democratic Party liberals, which though imperfect are enormously better than the right's. I would not support the decision of any Republican in congress today given their history of embracing evil solutions over principled, good sense ones.
Bottom line, in a very imperfect world of hard choices, we were and are still the guys in the white hats.
Democrats on senate intelligence committee
Mark Warner, Virginia, Vice Chairman
Dianne Feinstein, California
Ron Wyden, Oregon
Martin Heinrich, New Mexico
Angus King, Maine[12]
Joe Manchin, West Virginia
Kamala Harris, California
Republicans on senate intelligence committee
Richard Burr, North Carolina, Chairman
Jim Risch, Idaho
Marco Rubio, Florida
Susan Collins, Maine
Roy Blunt, Missouri
James Lankford, Oklahoma
Tom Cotton, Arkansas
John Cornyn, Texas