Inexcusable Behavior

Nominee Gina Haspel

To head the CIA? No way!

How can senators ignore

The ugly truths on her resumé.

 

Having run a black site in Thailand

Where prisoners were tortured, she

Then erased the evidence

In hopes to clear the agency.

 

And now our leaders want to promote her?

Damn! Please excuse the profanity,

But one would think it more apropos

To try her for crimes against humanity?

 

"Enhanced interrogation techniques"--

What a sickening euphemism

Used to justify the use

Of torture to fight terrorism.

 

According to Trump, waterboarding

Is an acceptable practice; what's more,

He would push it further and do

What conscientious people deplore.

 

Apparently, justifications

For cruelty are easy to spin

When democratic values are being

Attacked from both without and within.

 

-by Bob B (5-14-18)