By Ryan MauroPardon me for being surprised that people are shocked to find out that Speaker Pelosi is a typical politician. Regardless of whether one thinks waterboarding is torture, the verdict on Pelosi's record on torture is in: she's an accomplice by choosing to remain silent, ironically outed by the director of national intelligence of the administration she worked to get elected.DNI Dennis Blair has put together a list of CIA briefings of members of Congress related to torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques," whichever term you prefer, including waterboarding. The document reveals that on September 4, 2002, Speaker Pelosi was briefed and given "a description of the particular EITs that had been employed" on high-level al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. It is now widely acknowledged that one of these "particular EITs" used on Zubaydah was waterboarding, putting him in an elite class of only three detainees to have had the technique used on them. [more...]
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Apparently Pelosi and Obama forgot something: the CIA KILLS people... it's in their job description. Did these two really think that these killers were going to take-one-for-the-team... when the team captain is a lying, incompetent, arrogant nebbish who has basically told them they need to kiss his ring? -please
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Obama really kicked an ant hill with his ill-advised and politically motivated release of Bush Administration memos regarding EITs.
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Let's have a hearing and get it all out there, shall we? Then watch the rats scatter who attacked Bush for protecting the country from terrorist attack... but who clearly knew what was going on five years before we heard a peep out of them.
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