RSSI know nothing!
Tom Bowler | April 24, 2009
Like Sergeant Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes fame, Nancy Pelosi knew nothing.
that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation
techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some
legislative counsel … opinions that they could be used,” she told
reporters today.’
That’s not what Porter Goss said about the briefings.
‘After three days of screaming headlines about the CIA destroying
videotapes in 2005 of the “harsh” interrogation of two terrorists, it
now comes to light that in 2002 key members of Congress were fully
briefed by the CIA about those interrogation techniques, including
waterboarding. One member of that Congressional delegation was the
future House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
The Washington Post on Sunday reported these series of briefings.
While it is not our habit to promote the competition, readers should
visit the Post’s Web site and absorb this astonishing detail for
themselves as reported by Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen in “Hill Briefed
on Waterboarding in 2002: In meetings, spy panels’ chiefs did not
protest, officials say.”
Porter Goss, the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee
who later served as CIA director from 2004 to 2006 is explicit about
what happened in these meetings: “Among those being briefed, there was
a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing. And the reaction
in the room was not just approval, but encouragement.”
In all, the CIA provided Congress with some 30 briefings on waterboarding before it became a public issue.
Why would the CIA want to tell the most senior members of Congress
about anything so sensitive? No doubt in part because senior officials
at the CIA, not to mention the interrogators themselves, assuredly did
not want to begin any such policy absent closing the political and
legal loop on it’
Of course, there will now be a new truth out there for the struggling mainstream press and the leftosphere to promote: Liberal Democrats could not possibly have known! Why the very idea is unthinkable! Their sanctimonious posturing is more than a little bit tiresome.
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