Former CIA Director Is Slack-Jawed

J Porter Goss slams Pelosi and others for recent mis-allocation of their own memory.

washingtonpost.com

Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as "waterboarding" were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.

Let me be clear. It is my recollection that:

-- The chairs and the ranking minority members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, known as the Gang of Four, were briefed that the CIA was holding and interrogating high-value terrorists.

-- We understood what the CIA was doing.

-- We gave the CIA our bipartisan support.

-- We gave the CIA funding to carry out its activities.

-- On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda.

Let me be clear. If Goss is correct then Nancy Pelosi is a slimy little weasel (In My Humble Opinion). She is abjectly not interested in what the minority ranking leaders knew or did not know, even though she belongs to the same party.

Let me also make a prediction. The Democrats will want a commission/investigation on this, but they will seek to limit the scope so that what any legislative official knew or did not know will be strictly off limits. They'll want to go after the administration only, even as they are "shocked, shocked!" to find that there is gambling going on in here.