It is no secret that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been in full cover-up mode ever since the Water boarding controversy became headline news. As has been reported by many Media outlets including the left leaning NY Times and corroborated by many of her colleagues, Nancy the ranking Democrat on the House Intellingence Committee at the time, was briefed by the Bush administration and was well aware of Waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques as far back as September 2002. For almost seven years not once did she cry foul to anyone about these so called torture tactics. Not once did she say,” I do not approve of this and I want to go on record with this stand”. For seven years following the 9/11 terror attacks on NYC, she did not have a reason to complain because the very same so called torture tactics used to counter subsequent attacks and cull useful information that deterred future attacks, kept her, her constituents and millions of Americans safe. By keeping silent about her Water boarding briefings, she in essence created a rift with the far Left wing of her party who staunchly & unapologetically oppose any type of torture under any circumstance. She cannot seem to reconcile this faux pas and is therefore in full denial mode. The same type of denial that led our President Barrack Obama to deny ever hearing Reverend Wright bad mouth the US from his pulpit even though he attended and sat in his church for 20 years. As incredulous as this seems, these are the types of outright lies that makes us dislike Politicians so much. It is an insult to our intelligence.
Instead, we have another self centered Politician scrambling to save their hide and political career. We have a biased media who for the most part has not pressed her on this issue. Instead, they have left her to dictate to them what gets reported and who should be painted as the bad guy in all of this. Why can’t Nancy Pelosi just woman up and say, “you know what, for the sake of keeping us safe in a time of war, I thought we needed to use all sources and methods of information gathering. I felt it was my duty as an American to keep this information secret until the appropriate time”. I’d probably respected her a great deal for taking on that stance and sticking it to the far left for once. Unfortunately, she has decided to take the same stance that our President has wrongly supported - and that is to lay the blame on those who at the time provided opinions which stated that Waterboarding was within the legal confines of Interrogation techniques. She has chosen to diminish all the good faith and morale built up over the last 7 years from the CIA. She is now on board with the idea of parading around all the lawyers for the CIA & DOJ that gave opinions and provided legal standing for the use of Water boarding and other advanced interrogation techniques and turning this into some big dog and pony show. In the best of interest of our national security, she should just have shut her mouth or simply stated the truth. Predictably, she has chosen to lie.
I would suggest that if she is so adamant about her recollection of the briefings she received in 2002, that she submit herself to and be Water boarded in an attempt to extract any additional information. If it is true what she is saying, then Water boarding should not provide any additional information. Maybe this can be televised on MSNBC. We can have Keith Olberman on one side, Chris Matthews on the other, and Rachel Maddow applying the Water. Now this may be something that many Americans would not mind tuning in to MSNBC for..
Instead, we have another self centered Politician scrambling to save their hide and political career. We have a biased media who for the most part has not pressed her on this issue. Instead, they have left her to dictate to them what gets reported and who should be painted as the bad guy in all of this. Why can’t Nancy Pelosi just woman up and say, “you know what, for the sake of keeping us safe in a time of war, I thought we needed to use all sources and methods of information gathering. I felt it was my duty as an American to keep this information secret until the appropriate time”. I’d probably respected her a great deal for taking on that stance and sticking it to the far left for once. Unfortunately, she has decided to take the same stance that our President has wrongly supported - and that is to lay the blame on those who at the time provided opinions which stated that Waterboarding was within the legal confines of Interrogation techniques. She has chosen to diminish all the good faith and morale built up over the last 7 years from the CIA. She is now on board with the idea of parading around all the lawyers for the CIA & DOJ that gave opinions and provided legal standing for the use of Water boarding and other advanced interrogation techniques and turning this into some big dog and pony show. In the best of interest of our national security, she should just have shut her mouth or simply stated the truth. Predictably, she has chosen to lie.
I would suggest that if she is so adamant about her recollection of the briefings she received in 2002, that she submit herself to and be Water boarded in an attempt to extract any additional information. If it is true what she is saying, then Water boarding should not provide any additional information. Maybe this can be televised on MSNBC. We can have Keith Olberman on one side, Chris Matthews on the other, and Rachel Maddow applying the Water. Now this may be something that many Americans would not mind tuning in to MSNBC for..
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