Lambert (via not atrios at eschaton) links to today's WaPo article(don't worry; Pincus is part of the team).

It turns out that the Democratic intelligence committee members, including Nancy Pelosi, were briefed on the us of water boarding and other torture techniques that the CIA was planning to use. In particular, these are the captives and techniques that would have been captured on the destroyed videotapes.

There was no objection raised during the briefings, and, according to the story:

Pelosi declined to comment directly on her reaction to the classified briefings. But a congressional source familiar with Pelosi's position on the matter said the California lawmaker did recall discussions about enhanced interrogation. The source said Pelosi recalls that techniques described by the CIA were still in the planning stage -- they had been designed and cleared with agency lawyers but not yet put in practice -- and acknowledged that Pelosi did not raise objections at the time.

As lambert remarks, no wonder impeachment is off the table.

We spend a lot of time complaining about the ineffectiveness of the Democratic leadership, and the party's general failure to follow through on the mandate of 2006. The American people could not have spoken more clearly in a mid-term election.

And nothing has happened. So when we see that Pelosi said yes to torture, and now we see, once more that Bush will be given a free hand in Iraq, you really have to start to wonder whether this talk of ending the occupation is less than sincere.

I've discussed that question at some length before.