talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/8/2009
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There's a lively debate today about which if any Democrats knew about various torture practices on a relatively contemporaneous basis. And we're going to have reporting today from TPMmuckraker about what certain documents do or don't mean. Speaking for myself though I'd be very surprised if the ...
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Pelosi And The Torture Briefings
Newshoggers.com —
... A report which strongly suggests that Nancy Pelosi and other key Dems knew a lot more than they've admitted about the Bush administrations' torturous ways has been leaked within minutes of it hitting Congress, by those with a vested interest in implicating their opponents. That a covering letter saying the report may or may not be trustworthy wasn't leaked at the same time just proves the leakers were furthering an agenda.
But Josh Marshall has it right: let's not fool ourselves.
Speaking for myself though I'd be very surprised if the ...
Bipartisan Complicity
Comments from Left Field —
... All of this is not to argue that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders in Congress did everything they could to protest the CIA’s torture program, or to end it. Clearly, they could have done much more. Josh Marshall puts it very aptly (h/t ...
What The Dems Knew About Torture
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Josh Marshall doesn't want us to kid ourselves: I'd be very surprised if the key Democrats at the time weren't briefed on a lot of this stuff. And to the extent that they didn't know the details, that it might have been not wanting to know rather than having been kept in ...
Hmmm
Talking Points Memo —
... I said last week that Democrats shouldn't harbor any illusions that congressional Dems were really kept in the dark about the Bush administration's use of torture. But Greg Sargent ...
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