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Pelosi Was Cool With Waterboarding...
By Dave - Politics Daily...when waterboarding was cool. Well either that, or she just wasn't paying attention, as Pete Hoekstra implies here: I think reasonable people can argue whether waterboarding is torture. It creates pain and unpleasantness, and the Wikipedia article is worth reading, but even more so the discussion. All in all it's not something I would like us doing, but if the alternative were if lives were at stake in another 9/11 style attack as Dick Cheney asserts, and all other options were fruitless, I personally would sign the go-ahead, and so I won't second guess the decision then. But since it is ...
Top Dems Briefed on Interrogations in 2002
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn the escalating war of words over the Central Intelligence Agency's admission that it destroyed videotapes of terrorist interrogations, officials said Sunday that key members of Congress were briefed on the interrogation program and techniques in a series of briefings that took place in 2002. Among the group of select Congressmen present at the briefings was current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)Officials familiar with the briefings told the Washington Post that no formal objections were raised to the information presented. Former CIA Director Porter Goss said that, on the contrary, ...
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