Crowd grills Senate Dem for voting to confirm Trump's CIA pick:'When Pompeo tortures, we'll be back'
Source: RawStory
ERIN CORBETT
30 JAN 2017 AT 14:13 ET
More than a thousand [link:https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/protesters-grill-democratic-senator-about-his-vote-for-trumps-cia-chief/protestors showed up] to Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouses town hall meeting on Sunday evening to question his decision to vote in favor of President Donald Trumps CIA chief.
Whitehouse, along with [link:https://theintercept.com/2017/01/23/14-senate-democrats-fall-in-line-behind-trump-cia-pick-who-left-door-open-to-torture/13 other Democrats], voted last Monday to confirm Trump CIA chief Mike Pompeo, who has promised to [link:https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-cia-director-pledges-crackdown-on-whistleblowers/224447/aggressively crackdown] on whistleblowers rights and [link:http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8306049/mike-pompeo-trump-cia-director/supports] widespread NSA surveillance. Pompeo has also spoken in favor of the CIAs torture program.
The Senators Sunday town hall was held in a Providence middle school auditorium, which reached capacity leaving an overflow of people to chant outside. They called for Whitehouse to come outside so he could address the group directly.
You are entitled to an explanation of why I have voted for some of the defense nominees and I will concede right off the bat that I may have been wrong, he told the crowd. Whitehouse did eventually make his way outside where he addressed the large group of people with a megaphone. He was greeted by a crowd that chanted Just say no! and Obstruct!
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about Whitehouse. 
