"Home of the Resistance": 2 Racist Suspect Democrat Senators Support CIA Pick, Torture of Non-Whites

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Joe Donnelly of Indiana on Saturday became the second Democratic senator to back Donald Trump’s pick to run the CIA, Gina Haspel, whose nomination is in question over her role in a rendition and torture programme run by the agency after 9/11. The other Democrat to support Haspel is Joe Manchin of West Virginia, another senator up for re-election in a red state. [MORE]

Suleiman Abdullah Salim, a Tanzanian citizen, is a fisherman. In March 2003, the CIA and Kenyan security forces abducted him in Somalia, where he was working as a fisherman and trader. They rendered him to Kenya and from there to a CIA prison in Afghanistan, codenamed COBALT in the Senate torture report.