[TheRealThing]

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If the policy of the day, the aftermath of 9/11, was that waterboarding was an acceptable interrogation technique, (and I think it was policy beneath this nation) I do not agree with castigating Ms. Haspel for participating in that particular policy. However, this is a particularly slippery slope when it comes to torture, as every thug and tyrant could hide behind, “I was just doing my job, just carrying out policy,” as if “official policy” usurped basic human decency and morality.

Waterboarding, by the accounts of those in service to this nation at the time, and the kings and queens who ratified the practice in the Congress, is not torture. That term is revisionist relabeling for political gain on the part of the Dems.

The slippery part comes in when those in power at the time and who supported the act of waterboarding by putting it into law, try to blame their own actions on others as in the case of Gina Haspel. But other than the fact that the Dems have sworn to resist any nominee of the Trump Administration, the whole exercise in deceit is a disgrace. And the only hiding going on, is on the part of those who're responsible for waterboarding's implementation, but who're now hiding behind faked self righteous indignation for political gain because they think the people are just too stupid to put it all together. We're the ones being denied our elected government by the side that lost. Now, that's what I call the ultimate usurp not to mention epically (in historical terms) indecent.