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15 May 2009
Posted on BlackState 15 May 2009

Republicans are piling on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi because of what she may have known about water boarding. However, their tactics are nothing more than a diversionary tactic to take pressure off of investigating the true perpetrators or what may have been an illegal program, the Bush administration. Do the Republicans and their media sympathizers not remember that Speaker Pelosi was not even the Speaker of the House in 2002, 2003? I know NBC wants to distance itself from its liberal brother MSNBC but come on Matt Lauer never mentioned the fact that Pelosi was not even Speaker when briefed on these tactics. She only became minority leader in 2003. She and the Congressional Democrats did not wield much power in 2002, 2003. Further former Senator Bob Graham stated that he received no such briefing on water boarding.

The notion of Pelosi holding hearings even closed hearings on interrogation of terrorists months after 9/11 did not make practical or political sense. So why are they blaming Pelosi? Perhaps because Pelosi has been an effective Speaker and adversary to those on the right. She was instrumental in Democrats retaking Congress in 2006 and instrumental in Congress picking up seats in 2008. Nothing would make the right happier than seeing Pelosi bruised in the torture debate so as to derail likely further Democratic gains in 2010 led by an effective Speaker of the House and popular Democratic President.

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