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The Great Shell Game…Keep Your Eye on the Pea-losi…
BY Stewart Resmer
Unless some one has been in a Rip Van Winkle like nap, they havent heard anything about the near meltdown in DC over the torture of detainees in the Bush-Cheney war on terror. The latest act that has been playing out is whether Nancy Pelosi is the person who knew everything and is completely responsible for, a run away secret program all by herself?
This has been nothing more than a common street corner shell game, there is no pea-losi under the shell. And on the opposed corner across the politcal street, the GOP can’t produce their own either.
In my opinion, it would appear the repsonsibilities of the scandal of abuse of prisoners trail back to the steps of the white house and rest at the door of the president, vice president and the then secretary of defense, and their underlings who seemed all too ready to carry out the orders to go to any lengths at all to get the information they wanted.
Here at Veterans Today over the course of the past several weeks we have been following the trail of an elusive story.
We have posted for you here the Bybee memo’s in their entirety that respond to the request for a determination, that the jurist dutifully provided his masters.
We have posted for you the video of the two psych officers who reverse engineered the torture techniques, that refuse comment.
We have posted for you the photographs in all their telling detail with bloodied faces and steel doors standing in witness to the bruatality of the beatings with blood smears delivered at the hands of some one?
We have listed the name of a General who is reported to have given the order at Guantanamo to authorize the rough treatment there.
We have chronicaled the events as they have played out for you to draw your own opinion of.
Nowhere in this trail of infidelity to the ideals of the great document, The US Constitution, have we found the finger prints of one woman, Nancy Pelosi, at the scene of the crimes either in the white house or in the field where the crimes have occured, where at this writing MSNBC reports that personnell who carried out the reprehensible acts claim judicial Kabuki Dance like immunity from prosecution as Boehner calls for Pelosi to come clean on what she was told by the very agency whose trade and craft is deception, subversion, and plausible deniabilty.
The problem as I see it is that while plausible deniability in the nations interest is one matter, when it comes to secret counter intel operations, plausable deniability in the agencies own best interest is quite another, and the ones who are most responsible for the subterfuge and illegal conduct have a very personal self serving interest to avoid proesecution as well, as they continue to play the lions game of escape and evasion
And it is they who will just as adroitly play the shell game with the GOP, if they havent, or arent already.
And for all Mr Boehners and his cohorts protestations, and distress to save the shipwrecked GOP that ran aground the on rocky shoales during the last 8 years, it remains implausible that they knew nothing nor did anything to stop the madness when they had the power to do so, or they would be showing us the proof that they did, instead of demanding Mz Pelosi show she did not?
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Some people (Repl.) will do anything to get what they want.
Every time a congress person opens their mouths, they lie. Congress woman Pelosi accused the CIA of lying to her. Now it comes down to where you believe the CIA or Pelosi. Sorry Stewie, I believe the CIA.
uh-its really not about Mz Pelosi at all is it?
It has everything to do with Bush Cheney does 1-999, who are the co-conspiarotrs in a violation of common article 3 of the geneva conventions, under color of authority.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm [www.unhchr.ch]
Isnt it?
here comes da judge…
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/torture_lawyers/index.php [www.velvetrevolution.us]
DUH… The CIA is in the business of lying….. THAT’S what they do for a living
Porter Goss says Pelosi should have known “the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed.” But he doesn’t say she should have known “the techniques on which they were briefed had already been employed.” Which is a critical part of her complaint–that CIA did not tell Congress that waterboarding and other techniques “were used” … that “they were using that.” This briefing is always described as occuring in “fall 2002.” Even interpreting “fall” broadly to include all of September, that means the briefing took place after they had already waterboarded Abu Zubaydah 83 times in a month.
So whether or not Pelosi is arguing “waterboarding” was mentioned or not, even Goss appears to confirm one of Pelosi’s main points. The CIA did not reveal this was already taking place. Even in Goss’ understanding, they revealed only that waterboarding “was to be employed”–in the future
BUT more importantly:
The CIA came before the Gang of Four, after they had already waterboarded Abu Zubaydah 83 times in a month, and told the intelligence leaders that they had an opinion that would allow them, in the future, to torture. But they didn’t tell Congress they had already been in the business of torture for at least a month. The Bush Administration and the CIA failed to fulfill their legal obligation to notify Congress before it engaged in this kind of activity–hell, they didn’t even notify them after they had engaged in it, not for some months afterwards.
I get that you like he-said-she-said. But you’d think you might spare some interest in the failure to comply with the law sitting right in front of your face.
Bob Graham was just on CSPAN’s Washington Journal. He raised two more potential problems with the CIA’s account of its briefings on torture.
First, he said Stan Moskowitz, from the CIA’s Office of Congressional Affairs, conducted the briefing. Yet the CIA says that people from the CounterTerrorism Center conducted the briefing. As I have suggested, that might mean that Jose Rodriguez, then head of CTC, conducted the briefing; Rodriguez is the guy who later ordered the destruction of the torture tapes. Or it might mean that Jonathan Fredman, the guy who once said “If the detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong,” and then-Counsel for CTC, did the briefing. But Graham was absolutely unequivocal that-based on his famously anal notes, Moskowitz did the briefing.