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wilthrill · 12-11-2007, 08:19 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

NOW the democrats are raising hell about waterboarding and other forms of "torture" when in fact THEY knew about this back in 2002 and at that time approved of it.

From the article:
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.

GEE IS THERE ANYTHING THE DEMOCRATS WON'T PLAY POLITICS WITH??????

12-11-2007, 08:19 AM	#1 (permalink)
wilthrill Band Whore Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 823 Rep Power: 46	Pelosi et al KNEW and APPROVED of "torture" in 2002 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews NOW the democrats are raising hell about waterboarding and other forms of "torture" when in fact THEY knew about this back in 2002 and at that time approved of it. From the article: 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. GEE IS THERE ANYTHING THE DEMOCRATS WON'T PLAY POLITICS WITH??????