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 .
I'm not outraged, just disappointed to once again see the extent to which Bernie, and the American left at large, clearly don't give a shit about the lives of people in the Global South.
If his vote to confirm an evil torturer ,who led a murder program, to a position of immense power didn't matter either way, then what argument is there for him to do it?
It's horse trading, and he's not the guy in the big chair.
"You don't care about the global south!" I can't do anything about the global south! Not a single person on this website wants more bullshit to happen in South America, but if you think it's not on the list to happen, you're naive.
I don't have the answers for what we need to do, but I guarantee Bernie Sanders is going to get more done for us and the world than you or me or every person here, especially if all we do is post about how leftist we are. Perfect politics only exists online. The real world is imperfect.