Waterboarding: They were for It Before they Were Against It

[dude1394]

Heh...

I was for it and still am, just to get my thoughts out there.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blog...it-before.html

Sunday, December 09, 2007
Waterboarding: They Were For It Before They Were Against It

Major Hat tip to Michael van der Galien of the PoliGazette for the email bringing this news to my attention.

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques 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. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.

"The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough," said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.

I don't even know where to start here with all the name calling, denials, accusations and investigations, one would have to wonder how this little tidbit didn't come to light sooner.

To give credit where it is due, even members of the left are highly peeved, to put it nicely, that Nancy Pelosi was present at that tour in 2002.

[FishForLunch]

They were fooled by Bush for sure, somehow bush seems to be fooling the dems even though he is labeled dumb.