So "Bloody Gina" Haspel, whom Trump proposes to head the CIA, was "just following orders" in running those CIA torture camps in Thailand....

It's still quite clear that she tortured people because she liked torturing them. To hear her taunting a victim of torture affords a deep, horrifying insight into the very nature of Evil itself.  And, of course, that's really the only reason--bullshit aside--that anybody ever tortures anybody: The love of hurting others.  Orders handed down by superiors mean nothing.  As was concluded, I believe, at the Nuremburg trials.

But now, the point is, we are to have an all-powerful (possessed of a secret budget) rogue, paramilitary security agency, headed by an unrepentant, bloody-handed war criminal.  Things don't get much worse than this, until the Sultan himself starts wandering among us, murdering his "one innocent man a day."