Sunday, December 09, 2007

Democrats knew of waterboarding in 2002


Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002
In Meetings, Spy Panels' Chiefs Did Not Protest, Officials Say

By Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, December 9, 2007; Page A01

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.



Nazi Pussyoli, do you believe Americans are idiots? You are a hypocrite of the first degree. To paraphrase one of America's most enduring movies, Blazing Saddles:

"WE THE WHITE, GODFEARING CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES wish to express our extreme displeasure with your choice of criticizing President Bush for doing the same thing you have done. Please remove yourself from Congress immediately. The fact that you still stay there just goes to prove that you are the leading asshole in the country!"