On Thursday, our Toni sliced and diced a Rolling Stone writer who compared CIA agents to Al Qaeda psychopaths, and used that nonsense to oppose the confirmation of Gina Haspel as head of that agency.

But there’s no definitive answer to Haspel and the torture question until the gals from The View speak out, right?

Yes, I called them ‘gals.’ Deal with it.

Naturally all the gals cheered on Sen. Kamala “I’m Running in 2020” Harris in her grilling of Haspel.

Then they went to their go-to expert Meghan McCain, Sen. John McCain’s daughter. Now let’s be honest here — if she didn’t have a famous father, Ms. McCain wouldn’t have a national platform. Deal with that, too.

But anyway, just like Dad, Meghan McCain also opposes Gina Haspel’s confirmation. Because she knows all about torture, apparently:

“Life isn’t like the show ’24,’ where you just take a gun and blow someone’s kneecap off and get all the information you want. The point is the people break at a certain point and they give false information.”

Well, we know that Ms. McCain can tell us about Jack Bauer’s techniques since she saw them on TV. She must also think we knuckle-draggers believe that 24 is realistic, so she needs to lecture us to let us know that it’s fantasy.

However, she also seems to think that the CIA may be “psychotic” for waterboarding terrorists, and is seriously concerned that its agents might start decapitating prisoners.

I’m not kidding.

Look, Ms. McCain’s father may have been tortured some 50 years ago in North Vietnam, but that does not make her an expert on waterboarding. And she certainly is no expert on the CIA in the 21st century. My father flew on a B-17 bomber in World War II, but that doesn’t make me an expert on WWII aircraft, either.

But does waterboarding work? Actually, no one really knows. A British psychologist, writing in The Independent, doesn’t like waterboarding, but isn’t sure. I appreciate his honesty:

If President Trump were to ask me whether torture works, as a psychological scientist, I would have to say: “I don’t know.” However, I would have to point to the available science suggesting that it’s not be the best way of persuading information-holders to yield.

Frankly, I think it’s all rather like a baseball game. A pitcher might be able to get a batter to strike out with a series of particular pitches. However, he may have to use a different pitch strategy to get the next guy out. And then there are those batters he just can’t strike out. So maybe waterboarding works for some terrorists, and not for others.

But that’s just conjecture on my part. I really don’t know if torture, or waterboarding, is effective. However, certainly there are a lot of CIA insiders who know far better than me about the best ways to get information from prisoners. And they’re keeping it all within their shadowy world — as they should.

But I feel pretty sure that they’re not going to start cutting off heads. Meghan McCain insulted the patriots of the CIA for suggesting they would do such a thing. For that, she should apologize.