Posted on 05/14/2009 7:11:56 AM PDT by fiscon1
Someone important appears not to be telling the truth about her knowledge of the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). That someone is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The political persecution of Bush administration officials she has been pushing may now ensnare her.
Here's what we know. On Sept. 4, 2002, less than a year after 9/11, the CIA briefed Rep. Porter Goss, then House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Mrs. Pelosi, then the committee's ranking Democrat, on EITs including waterboarding. They were the first members of Congress to be informed.
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She’s a war criminal! There must be a Truth Commission! There must be trials! There must be executions!! /partial sarc
“The political persecution of Bush administration officials she has been pushing may now ensnare her.”
One should always be careful of what one asks for...
Just looking at her and listening to her is SHEER TORTURE!
Got a better idea. Let’s have the speaker act as housekeeper to Laura and George W. Bush for the rest of the year!
I’m quite certain that would make her crazy.
She’s just “forgetful.”
Clearly waterboarding is torture. Anybody authorizing this torture or doing this torture should be tried for war crimes. Nancy Pelosi seems guilty to me. She is no better than the Japanese thugs who waterboarded American POWs during World War 2.
Republicans had better not drop the ball on this. They need to keep this story front and center and continue to demmand an investigation. If EIT’s are torture and ‘war crimes’ were committed, as the Speaker seems to allege then she must be indicted as a war criminal. Keep her sqirming!
WAR CRIMINAL!
"I’m quite certain that would make her crazy."Sorry, you can't make her crazy, she's been that for some time.:)
Well if waterboarding is torture, I wonder what historians should begin calling the stuff that happened during the Middle Ages, the Inquisition, etc. Perhaps “really, really intense” torture? “Professional” torture? “Old school” torture? Isn’t it remarkable how our sensibilities have changed over the centuries—and particularly over the past few decades. But then I suppose when a jury awards millions to someone who has suffered the unspeakable pain and discomfort of having spilled coffee on her leg, well, you figure it out.
To use the same word ("waterboard") for the Japanese "water cure" used during WW2 and the scary but non-life-threatening EIT practice used briefly on unlawful enemy combatants (aka terrorists) by our intelligence community is a torture of the English language. Furthermore, the practice of waterboarding as outlined in our EIT documents, is clearly NOT torture even though it is extremely unpleasant and apparently rather terrifying. It might be extreme hazing, but it is not torture.
Yep the LIAR is as guilty as anyone ...
Imagine Nancy in black tights, high heels, black mask and leather whips (whipping terrorists).....OHHHHHHHHH the horror, the horror!!!!
Oh crap, I feel like barfing chunks.
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