'Nancy Pelosi Was an Accomplice to Torture'
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 04:37AM Karl Rove, President Bush’s former Deputy Chief of Staff and senior White House Advisor, wrote this editorial at the Wall Street Journal addressing the mounting evidence against Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her denial that she was had any knowledge about waterboarding techniques during the Bush administration.
Congress and Waterboarding; Nancy Pelosi Was an Accomplice to Torture
If Mrs. Pelosi considers the enhanced interrogation techniques to be torture, didn’t she have a responsibility to complain at the time, introduce legislation to end the practices, or attempt to deny funding for the CIA’s use of them? If she knew what was going on and did nothing, does that make her an accessory to a crime of torture, as many Democrats are calling enhanced interrogation?
Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy wants an independent investigation of Bush administration officials. House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers feels the Justice Department should investigate and prosecute anyone who violated laws against committing torture. Are these and other similarly minded Democrats willing to have Mrs. Pelosi thrown into their stew of torture conspirators as an accomplice?
It is clear that after the 9/11 attacks Mrs. Pelosi was briefed on enhanced interrogation techniques and the valuable information they produced. She not only agreed with what was being done, she apparently pressed the CIA to do more.
But when political winds shifted, Mrs. Pelosi seems to have decided to use enhanced interrogation as an issue to attack Republicans. It is disgraceful that Democrats who discovered their outrage years after the fact are now braying for disbarment of the government lawyers who justified EITs and the prosecution of Bush administration officials who authorized them. Mrs. Pelosi is hip-deep in dangerous waters, and they are rapidly rising.
Impeach the Speaker of the House? There’s a case to be made for it.
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Reader Comments (9)
This should not be an issue.
Those terrorists could have been interrogated with pinking shears and then fed into a wood chipper- no harm, no foul.
The woman has been lying through her teeth. And she is just digging herself into a whole. But then again, we are talking about a liberal who is incapable of telling or even knowing the truth.
Enough is enough…
FIRE NANCY PELOSI,
NOW!!!
AubreyJ………
i will wait and see what more comes out because anything that piece of trash Rove says mean nothing as he is a liar and a manipulator. She may be lying but I need much more credible sources than Karl Rove. Even citing him as an authority does not make any sense.
So you're disputing the facts as Rove laid it out? On what basis, Greatone?
Pelosi "may be lying"? Well, you owe Rove an apology for calling him "that piece of trash" "is a liar and a manipulator", won't you?
he simply is not a credible source even if he ends up being right on this one. Bob Grahan also has said the CIA lied to him so pretty good chance Pelosi is being truthful
How is Karl Rove less credible than anyone else?
he is a liar and a political hack for the Bush administration
They are all liars, Hypocrites etc. Look at the republicans- "moral majority" ha! "Christians" double ha! Democrats, basically the same but not quite as mean. This nation is about me me me, money money money. Wake up people!