Enough Democrats are coming around to her that she will probably be confirmed, but not before John McCain engages in a little moral preening. It is, after all, his specialty.
McCain agrees with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Stop Gina Haspel!
I wonder if his next trick will be to officially switch parties. Everyone knows he did it in his heart long ago. Heck, why not?
That he would oppose Haspel is less surprising than that would be, although McCain is usually pretty hawkish on foreign affairs. It’s just that he’s willing to fight, but not to fight to win, and he joins much of the Beltway in that he’d rather risk the lives of innocence than be a meanie to a terrorist.
Here’s what he told Seung Min Kim of the Washington Post: