[Hoodat]

Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002
In Meetings, Spy Panels' Chiefs Did Not Protest, Officials Say

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

[SteamShovel]

Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002

Maybe the whole "Bush Lied, People Died" lie will crumble.....

.....remember, the RATS were hot to trot to go after Iraq.

That is, before Bush had the guts to do it. That's when they turned and tried to say Bush lied to them and they were tricked and Bush is evil.

[FrdmLvr]

Perhaps we should start calling her Sgt. Schultz. "I KNOW NUZINK!"