Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:45:26 PM
After a week of increasingly desperate, cowardly excuses, she saved the best for last. Mind-boggling.
I don’t know what she could possibly mean by this after yesterday’s
“the CIA misleads us all the time” sandbagging unless she’s now
accusing Team Bush of pulling aside the agents in charge of briefings
and ordering them to lie. Which is insane given that (a) by her own
admission, agents did brief Congress about waterboarding Abu Zubaydah
by early 2003; (b) in the political climate of the time, with Democrats
gung ho to prove their “toughness” on terrorism, Bush had less to fear
that they’d be squeamish about waterboarding if he told them than that
they’d be enraged if he didn’t tell them because he thought
they might be squeamish; and (c) according to Pelosi’s logic here, if
this is all just another of the Bushitler’s conspiracies, then her
failure to mention it until now means she’s been essentially covering for George Bush.