Pelosi cautiously admits what everyone knows: U.S. tortures

[babylonsister]

Could she be any more wishy-washy?


http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/10/07/pelosi_says_us_tactics_could_be_torture/1901/

Pelosi says U.S. tactics could be torture

Published: 7, 2007 at 7:06 PM

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday known U.S. interrogation techniques, including head slapping and "waterboarding," could constitute torture.

In waterboarding, water is poured over a detainee's head to simulate drowning.

But the California Democrat, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," stopped short of opposing President George Bush, who has said there has been no torture sanctioned by the United States.

"There is a legal definition of torture that I believe this would fit. And the president says it would not," the California Democrat said. "Again, we have to see the degree, and what he is talking about. Because, again, to answer on the basis of something that's been reported in the press that the president has deemed is not torture, it's just not -- I just can't give you an informed answer on that."

Pelosi also said that while as a member of the House Intelligence Committee she has received some briefings about interrogation methods but not about secret Justice Department memos in 2005 approving the use of tactics such as head slapping, waterboarding and exposure to extreme temperatures.

[Kagemusha]

1. It's so wishy-washy, it's not an admission at all.

This is more like, "Does the US torture? Opinions differ".

This is a reference to mockery of the mainstream media's neutral-sounding headlines for the most amazing one-sided facts.

I prefer to put it like this. As Bush said, the US does not "torture" - it just tortures.

[EST]

2. I am coming to the conclusion that, far from being the best informed,

best balanced people in the country, with studied directness and a view toward the best solutions for a huge, enormously varied populace, they are ill informed, petty poseurs, ready and willing to sell anyone down the river for the right thirty pieces of silver, protective only of their enablers, financiers, some family, and fellow fakers.

I'm damn near done with the lot of them.

[ray of light]

3. Pelosi should just hold those impeachment hearings and she

might get the facts and under oath too!

[Swamp Rat]

4. "could constitute torture." - COULD?!?

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[spanone]

5. could be my ass

[derby378]

6. And she wonders why Cindy Sheehan is challenging her in 2008?

Nancy, baby, you're killing us...!