*Peace Groups Blast Biden's [head of US intelligence services] Pick [Avril Haines] Over Links to Drones, Torture, and Mass Surveillance.*

Warlike "centrist" Democrats think she's great. No wonder she supported the nomination of fellow torture-advocate Haspel to head the CIA. According to Wikipedia, she decided not to punish the CIA agents who had been caught cracking Senate computers to spy on senators.

Some of them seem to think she is a good choice because of her gender or reported hispanic ethnicity. Her Wikipedia page gives no sign of hispanic roots; perhaps they are distant. Surely those Democrats don't think that she would refrain from engineering coups in Latin America on their account. Or do they think they will encourage her to do so?