Let’s see -
the CIA did the job it was asked to do,
the leading Dims were briefed on that job,
the Dims approved that job by their consent and lack of dissent on it,
then,
when their radical minions obtained the Executive and came looking to hold someone accountable,
and looking to do so regardless of the consequences that would evolve from their actions,
the Dims had no problem approving the release of information that might undermine not only certain individuals in the intelligence community, but our intelligence efforts themselves,
and, in pure Dim hypocritical fashion,
they want the open, public tale of it all
to exclude their part in it.
The dictum of “you reap what you sow” seldom rings as true in U.S. politics as it does in this case.
But, the real hypocrisy of it is their self-imposed requirement, in slavery to the radical leftists, to refuse to defend the very actions of the CIA that were completely defensible and which they knew were defensible in the first place. There was nothing missing in their original failure to object. The only honest thing missing now is their failure to say that.
The latest meme being thrown out for public consumption is that Bush broke the law because he failed to disclose the use of waterboarding to Democrats until six months after it was first deployed. Even if that doesn't fly, the Dems...at least the ones at DU...indicate that they are more than willing to throw Pelosi under the bus to get Bush and Cheney.