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If you believe this Kit Bond bull puckey about the CIA never lying to Congress, then I’ve got a bridge to sell you!
But as everyone who is anyone except, of course, for the MSM and those unhappy that the Republican Party isn’t making things very interesting right now, thinks, the real issue, as put very well by Bruce Fein (quoted in Sam Stein’s piece in the Huffington Post), is not what Nancy Pelosi knew about torture and when she knew it, but is:
””We are already so far widely away from the Constitution and the rule of law that it is staggering to discuss degradations here,” said Bruce Fein, an associate deputy attorney general under Ronald Reagan and fierce critic of Bush’s national security policies. “The staggering thing here is we have a former president and vice president who have said, ‘Yes, we have authorized torture.’ We have a President and Attorney General who have said ‘Yes, waterboarding is torture.’ And we have a torture statute that strictly defines waterboarding as torture…. We have a clear confession to one of the most serious crimes in the criminal code and what was happening? Absolutely nothing.””
So, do you think we can begin prosecutions here at home before Spain, The Netherlands, or some other civilized nation that believes in International Law beats us to it?