She's a great pick for CIA head. A careerist, at the agency since 1985, whose enthusiastic supporters range from Barack Obama to James Clapper to Donald Trump.
But Pubs will likely have to peel off some Dems to get her through. John McCain and Rand Paul, generally figures at odds with each other, are allies on the issue of enhanced interrogation. (Memo to senator McCain about the torture he endured in North Vietnam: You were a good guy. The jihadists waterboarded at the Thailand detention center were real bad guys.) A number of Dems in red states are up for reelection. Team Haspel had best be scheduling some visits to their offices.
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