Ahhh! So THAT’s Why Impeachment’s Off the Table!
Via Atrios and Corrente, with links to the Washington Post, Nancy Pelosi knew about the torture all along and chose to do nothing.
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique[ly illegal and unconstitutional?] CIA program designed to wring [torture] vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the Bipartisan group, which included future-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites [gulags] and the harsh techniques [torture] interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill [not to mention the US military**]. But on that day, no objections were raised.
With one known exception, no formal objections were raised by the lawmakers briefed about the harsh methods [torture] during the two years in which waterboarding was employed, from 2002 to 2003, said Democrats and Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. 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).
Pardon me, let me rephrase that: Nancy Pelosi did nothing, and thereby enabled torture. It is plain and simple. THAT is why impeachment was taken off the table, because the Speaker herself is implicated in the crime.
I would like to rephrase Corrente’s headline: We are Democrats. THEY are criminals, torturers, and fascists. And Nancy Pelosi is a LIAR who has no business in the Speaker’s seat.
What a disgusting and morally bankrupt nation we have become. A nation of Frankensteins.
