Trump proves torture bonafides with CIA pick

Donald Trump says he supports torture of suspected bad guys because "It works." On waterboarding he's even more emphatic. "Waterboarding in your minor form" (of torture). "It's absolutely fine...but we should go much stronger than waterboarding."

It should not surprise us that Trump nominated CIA waterboarding specialist Gina Haspel to take over CIA in the latest administration shakeup. Trump called her a "terrific person", though we aren't sure whether that relates to her overseeing waterboarding at a black site US prison in Thailand or her destruction of video tapped evidence of the waterboarding that White House counsel ordered her not to do.

It there were justice, Gina Haspel would be sitting in a prison cell instead of the Director's chair at CIA. The media is focused on mentioning Haspel would be the first women to run CIA, if confirmed (and that's not certain). They should highlight she would be the first proven torturer to hold that august position.