Could Prior Knowledge of Waterboarding Be Nancy Pelosis Waterloo?
Could Prior Knowledge of Waterboarding Be Nancy Pelosi’s Waterloo? Friday May 15, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)What did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi know about waterboarding and when did she know it? Her Thursday press conference on the issue has stirred up a hornet’s nest in Washington, D.C. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow attempts to cut through the angry buzzing in a segment from her show last night. Maddow opens her piece on Pelosi by saying “One of the lamest ways to get out of being in trouble for something is to say, ‘Oh, everybody was doing it,'” and observes that this is what’s happening right now in Washington. In fact, Maddow notes, conservatives are trying to pull Pelosi into that category of ‘everybody’ and that’s why Karl Rove (via the Washington Post) is calling Pelosi a “torture accomplice.” The Washington Post made the Pelosi/waterboarding link back in December of 2007; I re
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}What did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi know about waterboarding and when did she know it? Her Thursday press conference on the issue has stirred up a hornet’s nest in Washington, D.C. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow attempts to cut through the angry buzzing in a segment from her show last night. Maddow opens her piece on Pelosi by saying “One of the lamest ways to get out of being in trouble for something is to say, ‘Oh, everybody was doing it,'” and observes that this is what’s happening right now in Washington. In fact, Maddow notes, conservatives are trying to pull Pelosi into that category of ‘everybody’ and that’s why Karl Rove (via the Washington Post) is calling Pelosi a “torture accomplice.” The Washington Post made the Pelosi/waterboarding link back in December of 2007; I re
