Klain fine. Yellen good. Kerry good. Blinken okay. Mayorkas okay. But Avril Haines, not okay. I hope Congress will take a hard pass. This is not an area where what we did yesterday should have anything to do with what we do tomorrow. businessinsider.com/biden-pi…

Biden's pick for US spy chief played a central role in Obama's secretive drone war that resulted in...

Some progressives have accused Haines of complicity in the CIA's use of torture after 9/11. A critic called her Biden's "most problematic pick yet."

businessinsider.com

Nov 25, 2020 · 4:07 AM UTC

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Killing is making a comeback!
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This says it all: ‘As a widely-cited 2013 Newsweek profile put it: "Haines was sometimes summoned in the middle of the night to weigh in on whether a suspected terrorist could be lawfully incinerated by a drone strike."’
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All terrible!!!👀🤡💯
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The plan is to have more drone strikes not less. All his picks are imperialists with that goal in mind.
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Not seeing a rating above ok to be honest. None of them are what I would consider good. Relative to what we just had, amazing. But that's a low bar.
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What did you EXPECT to happen with Biden? He’s the establishment. Trump was anti-establishment. You still haven’t figured this out?!?
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Controlled opposition looking good
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TBH, the entire Biden presidency is pretending what we did yesterday was perfect and just returning to the same deeply flawed playbook. Maybe after neoliberal establishment Dems lose another 1000 seats, they'll consider actual change.
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Blinken okay?
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