Michael Waltz: ‘This Is Politics At Its Absolute Worst’ with Dems Going After a Career CIA Veteran Like Haspel

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HAYDEN: "With a president who does not always attach his decisions to the real world, to data, to evidence. Gina Haspel is the one woman I want in that room when everyone else will be going into North-South auto-bob and saying 'you're right boss', Gina Haspel won't."
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BANDERAS: "That’s former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden endorsing Gina Haspel to lead the CIA, despite his disapproval of President Trump. This comes amid reports Haspel offered to withdraw her nomination just day before her confirmation hearing over concerns about her past role in the agency’s interrogation program. Michael Waltz is former U.S. Army Green Beret commander and former counter-terrorism adviser. He joins me now. First of all, Haspel serves as the CIA's deputy director."
WALTZ: "Right."
BANDERAS: "She spent 33 years in the agency, most of it undercover. She has earned her stripes, let's just put it that way. Why then would Congress be opposed to her role in interrogation program techniques that were set up after the 9/11 attacks?"
WALTZ: "Well, Julie, this is -- this is politics at its absolute worst."
BANDERAS: "Yeah, it is."
WALTZ: "With Democrats in Congress going after a career CIA veteran, the first case officer in five decades to be nominated to lead the agency. Someone who has been on the front lines of the war on terror her entire career, held senior positions which will mean minimal transition of this critical agency right now and importantly going back Obama's — President Obama’s then attorney general Holder appointed as special prosecutor to look into the torture issue. She was completely cleared. His deputy director of the CIA Mike Morell looked into the issue in an internal investigation and she was completely cleared. This is just politics at its worst for someone who is incredibly qualified to lead one of our most critical agencies."