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Man Who Wanted To Slit The Throats Of Airline Passengers And Burn People To Death In Their Office Was Tortured Roughed Up A Bit
Ace of Spades HQ —
... go. That's torture. Any government that had in their custody someone who might have information that could prevent that scenario from playing out again and didn't do every damn thing they could to prevent it wouldn't be doing its damn job. And let's not pretend this was some rogue operation designed simply to amuse Dick Cheney and his dinner guests. Top Democrats, including now Speaker Pelosi, were briefed on these methods in 2002. What did she or one of her colleagues ask, were " the methods were tough enough "? So don't come crying to me because a handful of murderous ...
Flattered & Blushing linkaround
The Anchoress —
... . Never forget that in 2002 Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats were briefed on torture and some of them wondered if waterboarding would be “enough”. It was later apparently decided that the best thing to do with waterboards was beat President Bush over the head with them as “a moral issue” until they got into power, at which point, they could, ...
An open letter to Paul Krugman (in comic book form)
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... So what does the Left do? They lie, they change the language. Suddenly, waterboarding is torture . Waterboarding: from which we gleaned information that saved American soldiers and protected American citizens. Because it's been described as torture. ...
Pelosi On Investigating Bush Abuses: Some, Not All
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... tried to do with wiretapping, that's what they did with politicizing the Justice Department, that's what they did in many more ways that we could see almost on a daily basis. And yes, that should be stopped.
So why is Pelosi so open to investigations where "DOJ politicization" is concerned and yet so quick to remind us that the Republic is chugging along just fine despite the fact that we still don't have closure on Cambodia? Let me kill the suspense.
Washington Post, December 9, 2007:
In September 2002, four members of ...
Pelosi On Investigating Bush Abuses: Some, Not All
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... tried to do with wiretapping, that's what they did with politicizing the Justice Department, that's what they did in many more ways that we could see almost on a daily basis. And yes, that should be stopped.
So why is Pelosi so open to investigations where "DOJ politicization" is concerned and yet so quick to remind us that the Republic is chugging along just fine despite the fact that we still don't have closure on Cambodia? Let me kill the suspense.
Washington Post, December 9, 2007:
In September 2002, four members of ...
Waterboarding: What Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Know and When Did She Know It?
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... interrogation technique in 2002.
Nancy Pelosi denies knowing U.S. officials used waterboarding — but GOP operatives are pointing to a 2007 Washington Post story which describes an hour-ong 2002 briefing in which Pelosi was told about enhanced interrogation techniques in graphic detail.
Two unnamed officials told the paper that Pelosi, then a member of the Democratic minority, didn’t raise substantial objections.
Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen wrote:
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look ...
Put Nancy Pelosi Under Oath in Waterboarding Investigation
Flopping Aces —
... to the Inspector General’s review. That review included information about the CIA’s use of waterboarding on the three detainees.
More detail on the specifics of how Congressional leaders, including Pelosi were informed comes from this 2007 story in the Washington Post:
Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002
In Meetings, Spy Panels’ Chiefs Did Not Protest, Officials Say
By Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen
Washington Post
Sunday, December 9, 2007
…In September 2002, four members of ...
Pelosi Says She Was 'Never Briefed' on Waterboarding
CNSNews.com Headlines —
... will be offered to how many people. I have always been for a truth commission, Pelosi said. I don't think we should grant an immunity bath. However, leading Republicans this week insisted that members of the intelligence committees and congressional leaders were briefed on the interrogation techniques. It is the responsibility of the executive branch to inform the committee, Pelosi said. They didn t come to consult. They came to notify. On Dec. 9, 2007, The Washington Post reported the following: In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first ...
Is the Harman Story an Attempt to Silence Her about Torture?
Firedoglake —
... But the former intelligence official familiar with the matter noted that Goss has given only one on-the-record interview on these CIA controversies since leaving the CIA director job. In the December 2007 interview, he said that Congressional leaders, including Representatives Pelosi and Goss himself, Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), and later Rep. Harman, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), had been briefed on CIA waterboarding back in 2002 and 2003. "Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA ...
Pelosi Taking Heat for Torture Hypocrisy
Politics Daily —
... Long before waterboarding became an issue, Pelosi and ranking congressional leaders were given about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of how waterboarding was used as well as other forms of interrogation techniques multiple U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge told the Washington Post. ...
Record Suggests Pelosi Did Little In Response To Torture Briefing
TPMMuckraker —
... The briefing was first reported by the Washington Post in December 2007, which revealed that lawmakers including Pelosi were 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." ...
Nancy Pelosi Accuses Everyone Else Of Lying
JustOneMinute —
... about the use of waterboarding and told that tapes existed of the waterboarding of one detainee. As the Washington Post reported Saturday, Pelosi's top aide on intelligence matters also attended the Harman briefing, a fact that Pelosi omitted from her statements on the issue for the past several years. Today she acknowledged that her aide, Michael Sheehy, subsequently told her about the waterboarding interrogations. Her December 2007 statement would have been in response to this 2007 WaPo story which claims she was briefed on waterboarding. Ms. Pelosi is hiding behind Jane ...
Pelosi Media Frenzy Took Seventeen Months to Materialize
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The precipitating event in this scandal is a December 9, 2007, Washington Post article titled: "Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002," in which the Post pointed a finger directly at Nancy Pelosi ... ...
The Pelosi/Waterboarding Story Goes Back a Bit
Blogs For Victory —
... that long before it became the contentious issue of May of 2009, news reports were indicating - quite calmly and with no heated Pelosian denials - that Pelosi and others were, indeed, briefed on the CIA’s interrogations: ...
