Speaker Pelosi: No, wait, what I really meant was...

[rodney_g_graves]

In act one, Speaker Pelosi claimed to have no knowledge of the actual techniques and methods of "enhanced interrogation."

In act two, The Blogoshphere Dexter countered with the page one story from the Washington Post (December 2007) which clearly shows she was fully briefed on the techniques of "enhanced interrogation."

act three: Speaker Pelosi

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[chuckles48]

You might want to include this link. That adds Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, and both Clintons to the list.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGU0NjdkYWUxOGQ0NjI1ODA2NjRhYTlmOWUxODMzZTM=

Indeed I might

[rodney_g_graves]

So much so that I have updated!

[jetfx]

This is a storm in a tea cup compared to the current administration's refusal to launch criminal inquiries into what actually went on with these "enhanced interrogations".

"I think there are probably very few people in this room or in America who would say that torture should never ever be used, particularly if thousands of lives are at stake."

Besides the extraordinarily unethical nature of torture, and the fact that it violates both US law and international treaties the US is party to, there is scant evidence that it is actually effective in extracting useful intelligence. I'm reminded of the old KGB joke about how they got a suspect to confess to authoring the entire collected works of Pushkin.

Rubbish

[rodney_g_graves]

First: Such an investigation is the criminalization of policy differences. Open that can of worms at your considerable peril.

Second: Terrorists who are not United States Persons and who are not captured within the sovereign territory of the United States are neither subject to the laws of the United States, nor protected by the legal protections of the laws of the United States.

Third: The laws which pertain to the terrorists are the Customary Laws of Warfare. In order to be protected by the protections of the Customary Laws of Warfare, one must observe and enforce the Customary Laws of Warfare. Terrorists do neither, are in fact illegal combatants, and are not subject to the protections of the Customary Laws of Warfare.

Fourth: Terrorists are wolves that walk erect and have the sole legal rights of becoming dead, and remaining dead. Anything happening to them on the way to fulfilling those rights is just a crying shame --not--.