May 12. 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

More evidence has surfaced that U.S. Congressional House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been untruthful in her dealings with the American people and the world, regarding claiming ignorance on the horrible, inhumane torture policies of the Bush administration.

She should not have gone along with it. To do so was to state you view others' lives as less than your own. Some of the people Bush illegally nabbed in violation of international law, were not terrorists and later cleared.

However, they were cruelly and horribly tortured in nightmare scenarios, prior to regaining their freedom. Bush is a war criminal, who has committed many crimes against humanity. He belongs in prison for the rest of his life. May God's justice win out. 

Pelosi: Torture protest improper in '03

5/11/09 8:14 PM EDT - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said Monday...

But there’s no dispute that on Feb. 4, 2003 — five months after Pelosi’s September meeting — CIA officials briefed Pelosi aide Michael Sheehy and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), then the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, on the specific techniques that had been used on Zubaydah — including waterboarding.

Harman was so alarmed by what she had heard, she drafted a short letter to the CIA’s general counsel to express “profound” concerns with the tactic — going so far as to ask if waterboarding had been personally “approved by the president.”

According to the Pelosi confidant, Sheehy told Pelosi about the briefing — and later informed Pelosi, the newly elected minority leader, that Harman was drafting a protest letter. Pelosi told Sheehy to tell Harman that she agreed with the letter, the Pelosi insider said. But she did not ask to be listed as a signatory on the letter, the source said, and there is no reference to her in it...

Republicans aren’t buying it. “If Nancy was so concerned about the waterboarding, why did she let someone else write the letter?” asked Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the intelligence committee. “If she was so upset, why did she let someone else raise objections?”

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