Posted on 05/17/2009 12:28:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued at a news conference Thursday that Republicans are focusing on how much she knew about CIA enhanced interrogation techniques in 2002 and 2003 as a "diversionary tactic to take the spotlight off those who conceived, developed and implemented these policies, which all of us long opposed."
Yet Pelosi's failure to protest what she alternately calls "enhanced interrogation methods" and "torture" - depending on whether the controversy threatens to make her look bad or the Bush administration - goes to the very heart of whether or not the "truth commission" she supports is anything more than an exercise in cynical partisan finger-pointing.
If Pelosi believes that the use of these techniques - including waterboarding - was so patently objectionable, why did she not use her political capital to end the practices as soon as she learned of them?
Pelosi rejects a time line released by the CIA that states that, as ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, she received a Sept. 4, 2002, "briefing on EITs" and their use with al Qaeda biggie Abu Zubaydah, who was waterboarded.
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While Pelosi did nothing to try to stop waterboarding, she explained, Harman was "the appropriate person to register a protest" - as Harman did in a letter to CIA counsel Scott Muller.
Protest? In the letter, which reads like the weakest of weak editorials, ......
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Critics Still Haven't Read the 'Torture' Memos
And:
US Law on Torture & Reservations on UN Convention on Torture
As much of a self-serving douche that Pelosi is, I have to agree that it’s a distraction from the issue.
Sunday Talk shows may be good to watch tomorrow...see this:
# # Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 2/17/2009 (not the live thread)
Nite!
Whoa... This is in the San Fransicko Chronicle. Nanzipants is definitely in trouble now.
We all know that the MSM is a commie collectivist hive. No way would this be published in her home town leftist rag if the word hadn’t come down from on high that she’s on the sh!t list.
Methinks she’s a goner.
Although I believe that I see the point, she has been one of the primary drivers who has made this an issue, and she personally has been screaming about these interrogations being “torture.”
And its all been done for hypocritical, self serving, gross political interest and to further enhance her own future and that of the liberal agenda.
To me, that makes it an integral part of the very issue itself.
And it makes her, in plain words, a liar who has been caught.
There is an old, somewhat obscure, saying:
it is a poor weapon that cannot point both ways
Thank you for your post - bill
Nancy has definitely got a mammary caught in the wringer. And the Media is yanking on the handle.
That’s no ‘lady’ - that’s Pelosi.
This is amusing to see what the people of CA will tolerate, even embrace.
bttt
Please,...she wouldn’t survive in my district...we have her polar opposite....Dana Rohrbacher.
Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach. She’s off the hook now, IMHO.
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