Here's what a CIA whistleblower has to say about her role in the Drone murder program
Avril Haines, at the NSC, was in charge of determining whether it was legal or illegal to place people on John Brennan’s kill list. We know that in almost all cases that she said it was legal to put these names on the kill list, and people were subsequently killed by drone, including American citizens, like Anwar al-Awlaki and his son.
She also choose not to discipline CIA agents for hacking the computers of Congressional Staffers authoring the Senate torture report.
Later she heavily redacted the final draft of the report; reducing it from 6000 pages to 500.
And she heavily advocates for an intensification of " crippling economic sanctions on North Korea "
However, I'm gonna push back on the grandpa love and say it's not that surprising that Bernie would vote to confirm this ghoul considering he's always supported drone warfare; saying they've “ done some good things ,” and “ taken out people who should be taken out .” When it comes to opposing Imperialism, Bernie has never been on our side .
Bernie is Social Imperialist, this is expected of him, Parenti call him out for being an imperialist, as Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee he is probably gonna keep increasing the War budget
Criticism is warranted here, but Parenti's thinking about socialist states (re: judging them against realistic standards, understanding that they exist surrounded by hostility with few allies) should also apply. Maoist Bernie would never have gotten as far as Actual Bernie, and for all the flaws of Actual Bernie, the left is better off with him than without him.
im not asking for maoist bernie, the bare minimun to me is anti-imperialist which Sanders isnt
Is there a realistic prospect of a substantially less ghoulish CIA director? If there was, would that end (or even curtail) U.S. imperialism?
I think he should have done more to fight this appointment, and there's a good argument that he should speak out more against imperialism in general. But there's also a good argument that he doesn't have the power to stop any of this, and that speaking out (as he did during the primary when he praised Cuba) often leads to blowback with no prospect of political gain.
its not just one thing to prove Bernie is an imperialist, he voted for the bombing of yugoslavia, he voted for the Iraq Liberation Act , he voted for santions against Libya and Iran in 96, he voted for 6 Iraq war budgets and other thing
like you can make the case that the CIA ghoul would have still become the director (its the CIA after all) and that being anti-imperialist doesnt get you votes, but thats not the point, Anti-Imperialist even if its just anti-war/santions shows international solidarity with the Third World and just like Evo Morales said being Anti-Imperialism should be the bare minimun for any socialist.
They would never let someone who wouldn't, become chairman anyway.