By Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd
December 21, 2020 "
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Clearing House" - It was painful
enough to live through the U.S. invasion of Iraq
that caused untold devastation and human misery
for no justifiable reason.
Now we are again reminded of the grim Bush
legacy with President-elect Biden’s nomination
of Avril Haines for Director of National
Intelligence. Haines, who has an
inside-the-beltway reputation for being nice and
soft spoken, was a little too nice to CIA agents
who hacked the computers of Senate Intelligence
Committee investigators looking into the CIA use
of torture—waterboarding, sleep deprivation,
hypothermia, rectal feeding, whippings, sexual