Nancy Pelosi’s Top Aide Was Briefed on Waterboarding in 2003

Nancy Pelosi is trying to use Patches O’Houlihan’s five “Ds” of dodgeball, Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive and…..Dodge, on the issue of waterboarding. She is trying use use them but it isn’t working, the more we learn and the more she scrambles the tighter the noose gets.

Nancy Pelosi was briefed in 2002 about waterboarding, she knew that the CIA had approved it and that they were going to use it. She claims that she knew that the CIA could use waterboarding but not that they were using waterboarding. It seems to me that if she had all of these morals that she claims to have and that if she thought that waterboarding violated these morals, and the morals of the United States, that the time to rise up and oppose waterboarding would have been in 2002 before anybody was waterboarded. But she didn’t, she condoned waterboarding with her silence. To feign disgust now is transparent.

CIA memos that were released last week show that Nancy Pelosi was briefed and did know that waterboarding was going to be used. She can play semantics all that she wants but the truth has been learned. But now we have learned that Nancy Pelosi’s top aide was briefed on waterboarding in 2003, after waterboarding was employed.

Are we supposed to believe that Nancy Pelosi’s top aide was briefed on waterboarding and did not tell Nancy Pelosi? Are we to believe that on an issue this important her aide did not think that this was worth mentioning? Or did she tell Nancy Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi approved of waterboarding?

Nancy Pelosi can Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive and…..Dodge all that she wants to but she knew about waterboarding in 2002, her aide was informed that waterboarding had taken place in 2003, and still she did nothing.

If, as Nancy Pelosi would have us believe, waterboarding is a crime and if those that approved waterboarding are to be tried for crimes than I would say that Nancy Pelosi is an accessory after the fact and should be tried as a war criminal also.

I look forward to the possibility that this administration will authorise investigations into the harsh interrogations that were used by the United States. I can’t wait to see all of these people who knew what was going on and who are now outraged squirm as the public learns that they approved of these methods also. The president has opened up a can of worms by releasing selected documents on the Bush administration’s interrogation techniques and now it is too late to put the lid back on.