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POPSIsn't Pelosi Guilty Even On Her Own Account? by Andy McCarthy Unless a victim is killed by torture such that the death penalty comes into play (which is not alleged here), American law regards conspiracy to commit torture as something exactly as serious, punished exactly as severely, as actual torture. As it happens, I don't think waterboarding as administered by the CIA was torture. But Pelosi says she does. If that's where you're coming from, how do you get off the hook by saying you only knew about a plan to torture but not actual torture? To establish torture conspiracy, a prosecutor wouldn't even have to prove an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. You just need to show that two or more people agreed to commit the prohibited act. Here, though, by her own account (or at least one of her own accounts), Pelosi knew the CIA was planning to use waterboarding and later learned it was actually being done.
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POPS Torturing The Truth According to a CIA document compiled by the Director of National Intelligence summarizing briefings to Congress on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorist detainees, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) knew from the very beginning that those techniques—including waterboarding—were being used on September 4, 2002. According to the memo the very first briefing listed is 9/4/02 with then Rep. Porter Goss & Pelosi. The summary of the briefing says: “Briefing on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of the particular EITs that had been employed.”
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POPSNancy Pelosi Lied, Terrorists Cried! This directly contradicts Pelosi’s story, that “we were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.” Even far left biased ABC is starting to run with the story,
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POPSNew CIA documents prove Pelosi WAS briefed on Enhanced Interrogation seven-year period during which CIA and other U.S. intelligence officials described the agency's interrogation program to senior lawmakers. By all means, let's have congressional hearings on torture now. And first in the dock, Nancy Pelosi where she will be questioned about why she approved interrogation techniques that she later denounced and then lied about having been briefed on them. Should make for great television. If only all of this didn't weaken our intelligence gathering efforts by attacking those people who kept us safe.
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POPSIf Government Officials Are Prosecuted For Approving Torture, Let’s Include Congress “Congress will face questions about what the Members knew and when, especially Nancy Pelosi when she was on the House Intelligence Committee in 2002. The Speaker now says she remembers hearing about waterboarding, though not that it would actually be used. Porter Goss, her GOP counterpart at the time, says he knew exactly what he was hearing and that, if anything, Ms. Pelosi worried the CIA wasn’t doing enough to stop another attack. By all means, put her under oath. Here’s an idea that might help jog Pelosi’s memory as to what she actually heard and approved: Waterboard ‘er. Source: Wall Street Journal
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POPSBush's War On Terror Comes To A Sudden Halt
Over time, a tiny circle of federal employees outside these teams got access to some of the reports of interrogations. Some were pleased by the new aggressiveness. Others were horrified. Unlike the federal employees, who could go to jail for disclosing the classified program, the reporters and their news outlets were protected by the Constitution -- but not from government pressure. Then-CIA Director Porter J. Goss and, later, Bush summoned top editors of The Washington Post to press their case against disclosing the existence of the secret prison network. The published reports in The Post and elsewhere earned the news media sharp recriminations from the administration, the Republican leadership in Congress and the public. Government leak investigations were launched. But in Europe, the reports set off a firestorm of criticism and government investigations in nearly every capital. Washington was pressured to move prisoners out of the secret jails.
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POPSFeinstein's Useless Criticism A very good point by John Cole. Feinstein's judgment on security issues is extremely suspect, since -- as he points out --- she voted for "Porter Goss, George Tenet, and Michael Hayden, as well as Mike Mukasey, Robert Mueller, and Donald Rumsfeld" without complaint. Looking at that track record, her opinion isn't worth a whole lot. Shut up and get with the program, Diane.
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POPSDemocrats ok with Waterboarding in 2002. The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan). Full article is probably worth the read.
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POPSCIA 'unprepared' for 9/11 He who went before is always to blame - old Jungle saying. He probably is really upset that he wasn't on the inside with the preparations.
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