The Discerning Texan
-- Edmund Burke
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Democrats Were Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002, Raised No Objections
Hypocrisy, thy name is "Democrat":
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.
Yet the Democrats were later "shocked, shocked" by all of this. When lies are told so often by Democrat politicians that the public becomes numb to lying in general, we as a Nation are in dire straits.
