Now This Makes Me Angry

Democratic leaders were briefed on "aggressive interrogation techniques" - read torture - in 2002. The briefing included a tour of one of their "black" prisions, those extraordinary rendition centers overseas and therefore exempt from U. S. law. Our Speaker of the House, Ms. Pelosi, was one of those on the tour.

Waterboarding was described. No objections were raised. What that bit of passive-voice dodgery means is that Ms. Pelosi tacitly approved the facility and the practice. Now I'll grant this was a year after 9/11 but still, were we so scared then that our very principles could be sacrificed to expediency? Instructional is the statement that only after public outrage began do grow were objections raised AMONG DEMOCRATIC LEADERS. Some names (I'll leave out the GOPers - they automatically approve):

Nancy Pelosi
Jane Harman
John Rockefeller
Bob Graham

No objections raised. They can hide behind the classification of the project but still it remains fact: Our Democratic leadership was party to torture becoming a part of U. S. tactics in wartime. Perhaps now we understand why impeachment was off the table.

California should recall Pelosi.