Don't forget about me!
Posted on 04/23/2009 3:19:58 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Or rather, almost nothing. She admits she was told that waterboarding could be used but insists she was never told it would be used, which I can only take to mean she was sufficiently comfortable with the practice in theory as not to call a halt to it in the conceptual stage.
Needless to say, according to Porter Goss, she’s a liar:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Paging Sgt. Schultz.
“She admits she was told that waterboarding could be used but insists she was never told it would be used”
What’s the difference? If waterboarding was torture and therefore illegal, she should have objected to it in theory as well as in practice.
Also, since when did government not use powers it has? I mean aside from anachronistic powers, like the ability to prosecute people for not wearing a hat on Sunday.
he more I think about the show trials Obama wants for “torturers,” the more I think they’re going to blow up in his face: Much of the GOP is up front about its support for enhanced interrogation but revelations about how Democrats backed it too will be genuinely shocking. By all means, more sunshine on their hypocrisy, phony sanctimony, and opportunism. Pelosi’s just the beginning.Bring. It. On.
Pelosi is a lying whore.
She sez she was told the technique ‘could’ be used; not that it ‘would’ be used.
Seems to me the time to pitch a fit ‘would’ be when she was told the technique ‘could’ be used. Why, other than for political ammo, would a principled elected official even allow the possibility of an action that he/she believes to be wrong?
As usual, Pelousy’s intentions are suspect, and her explanation rings hollow.
It’s time to take back the country.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/goss_obama_decision_crossed_a.asp
“Goss: Obama Decision “Crossed a Red Line””
SNIPPET: “Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the Obama administration for releasing Justice Department memos on harsh interrogation techniques. “For the first time in my experience we’ve crossed the red line of properly protecting our national security in order to gain partisan political advantage,” Goss said in an interview.
Goss, a former CIA operative, has made few public comments since leaving his post as DCI in September 2006. In December 2007, he told a Washington Post reporter that members of Congress had been fully briefed on the CIA’s special interrogation program. “Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing,” Goss told the Post. “And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement.”
In a letter to his intelligence community colleagues last Thursday, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair described those briefings. “From 2002 through 2006 when the use of these techniques ended, the leadership of the CIA repeatedly reported their activities both to Executive Branch policymakers and to members of Congress, and received permission to continue to use the techniques.”
Posted by Stephen F. Hayes on April 23, 2009 01:53 PM | Permalink
“Pelosi is a lying whore.”
Bingo.
The B#tch is lying. And I will bet there is proof of same in classified minutes. Bring a trial and I hope the Bush team demands em all in discovery. Let the chips fall where they may.
By Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, December 9, 2007; A01
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
"The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough," said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.
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WaPo
I object to the concept of Pelosi - in theory and in practice.
:)
Holy crap talk about spin mixed with lies and truth.
Watch the differences in her hand gestures with each sentence...watch where her eyes are at each word or phrase.
The only thing that was definitely truth was that the office of legislative counsel had some opinions that they (waterboarding and other techniques) could be used.
Everything else was a mix of spin and lies.
No she isn't. She has trouble giving it away.
Steny Hoyer can be seen employing a new technique he learned from speech coach Barney Fwank.
It all depends on what the meaning of “is” is
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