naming names
It also names other names.
The Senate intelligence committee's chairman and ranking member, Bob Graham and Richard Shelby, were given a briefing similar to the one with Pelosi and Goss on Sept. 27, 2002, according to the report.
On Feb. 4, 2003, a briefing on "enhanced interrogation techniques" for Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., revealed that interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri were taped.
In addition, that briefing "described in considerable details" the techniques used, including "how the water board was used."
A similar briefing the following day included Goss and Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who by that time had become the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, when Pelosi moved on to become minority leader.
I did a quick search for the actual report and haven't found it.
We've talked about how Democrats had to have also been involved in the torture fiasco. Well, we have some names in Congress to go with the surmises. And yes, it has been suggested before here that Pelosi had to have known and had been briefed.
I've had a crazy week that's left me a bit shell-shocked that ended with me giving an extremely mediocre hour-long talk this morning, so aren't really sure what to make of this. I'm even having trouble dragging out of my brain how much about this list of names we already know. But to me, this is another chip needed to piece this back together. How did America come to torture? Who in Congress let the Bush White House steamroll our Constitution? Why in the hell were Democrats so happy to be a part of this "rubber stamp Congress"?
Congress are our elected leaders. Where was the leading? Why were they just following orders? It's enough to make one sick, literally.
