{"id":19149,"date":"2017-01-12T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T21:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19149"},"modified":"2017-01-12T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T21:44:21","slug":"sanity-emerges-from-among-one-of-trumps-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19149","title":{"rendered":"Sanity emerges from among one of Trump&#8217;s picks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pompeo_011217gn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19150\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pompeo_011217gn-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pompeo_011217gn-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pompeo_011217gn.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How about this, folks?<\/p>\n<p>The man picked to be the next CIA director said today that he would &#8220;absolutely not&#8221; follow a direct order to torture enemy combatants in the search for information from them.<\/p>\n<p>That includes waterboarding, according to Kansas U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, who is Donald Trump&#8217;s pick to be the nation&#8217;s head spook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/313972-pompeo-would-absolutely-not-obey-torture-order-from-trump\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/313972-pompeo-would-absolutely-not-obey-torture-order-from-trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hoping to be able to speak well of a Trump appointee. Rep. Pompeo has given me the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo is known to be a combative fellow. He struck a reasonable and moderate tone today as he testified before a Senate committee that is considering his pick to lead the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t envision the new president issuing an order to torture enemy prisoner, Pompeo said under questioning from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. I hope he is correct in his assumption about the new commander in chief.<\/p>\n<p>Certain forms of torture have been referred to euphemistically as &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques.&#8221; According to The Hill: Asked if he could commit to senators that the CIA is \u201cout of the enhanced interrogation business,\u201d Pompeo affirmed that, \u201cYou have my full commitment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new CIA boss will need to held accountable to that pledge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad he made it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about this, folks? The man picked to be the next CIA director said today that he would &#8220;absolutely not&#8221; follow a direct order to torture enemy combatants in the search for information from them. That includes waterboarding, according to Kansas U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, who is Donald Trump&#8217;s pick to be the nation&#8217;s head &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sanity emerges from among one of Trump&#8217;s picks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[989,1424,6851,4864,5204],"class_list":["post-19149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-political-news","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-torture","tag-waterboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19151,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19149\/revisions\/19151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}