In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Their Past Use (Torture) NY times

[Mari333]

WITHOUT A SINGLE DISSENT FROM CABINET MEMBERS OR LAWMAKERS.
the people who are in positions of power really ARE C- students.



'In a series of high-level meetings in 2002, without a single dissent from cabinet members or lawmakers, the United States for the first time officially embraced the brutal methods of interrogation it had always condemned.


This extraordinary consensus was possible, an examination by The New York Times shows, largely because no one involved — not the top two C.I.A. officials who were pushing the program, not the senior aides to President George W. Bush, not the leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees — investigated the gruesome origins of the techniques they were approving with little debate.

The process was “a perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm,” a former C.I.A. official said.'

most glaringly:

'The top officials he briefed did not learn that waterboarding had been prosecuted by the United States in war-crimes trials after World War II and was a well-documented favorite of despotic governments since the Spanish Inquisition; one waterboard used under Pol Pot was even on display at the genocide museum in Cambodia. '







http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22detain.html?_r=1&hp

[WeDidIt]

1. Nancy Pelosi and Bob Graham are both going to be charged, too

Just like Porter Goss and Richard Shelby.

These four Congresscritters are as guilty as Bush administration officials. They signed off on torture.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. I think this is why impeachment was off the table from the get go

If Nancy had been smarter, she would have launched an investigation into election fraud - just as impeachable, just as important, and it would have kept the serf's eyes occupied and off of the torture issue. Oh well.

[Mari333]

3. yep!!

I always knew that beneath that permanent smile of hers was a C- student with blood on her hands.