IF TORTURE IS SO AWFUL...:

Pelosi Says She Knew About Waterboarding (Edward Epstein, 5/15/09, CQ)

If Nancy Pelosi hoped to use a news conference Thursday to get past the controversy over whether she was aware that the CIA was waterboarding terrorism suspects, she appears to have done just the opposite.

By publicly acknowledging for the first time that she learned in 2003 that waterboarding had been employed during the George W. Bush administration and charging that the CIA had repeatedly misled Congress, Pelosi might have helped fuel the controversy that is shaping up as the messiest of her 2½ years as House Speaker.

...then why's she submitting herself to it instead of just saying: "Of course, I knew. They're terrorists. We tortured them. We'll do it again next time."

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 15, 2009 7:19 AM