Maybe Pelosi had WAY to much cognac, schmoozing her jackboots.
"As one of the top four leaders on Capitol Hill, Pelosi had numerous tools at her disposal if she had truly wanted to block waterboarding. She could have threatened to put a hold on funding for the CIA interrogation program, or held up funding for other administration priorities, or worked with her Senate counterparts to hold up nominees for senior CIA positions, or simply called the national security adviser -- as she reportedly did in the case of the Iraq program. Pelosi did none of those things when she learned about waterboarding. By her silence, Pelosi gave her consent -- and then misled the media by claiming she was powerless to act."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...803564_pf.html
Anyway. This is unfortunate, because:
No sanctions for Bush lawyers who approved waterboarding, report will say
By Carrie Johnson - Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 31, 2010; A06
Bush administration lawyers who paved the way for sleep deprivation and waterboarding of terrorism suspects exercised poor judgment but will not be referred to authorities for possible sanctions, according to a forthcoming ethics report, a legal source confirmed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...001411_pf.html
This waterboarding thingy is getting out of hand. What's not talked about too much is anal rape etc. With a.r. etc it's not so much a scarring experience, nothing is really left damaged (physically). It heals!! It's legal!! Also, the public tends to think waterboarding is like, ... surfing in California. Let alone, the guys in Guantanamo that the Pakastanis rounded up for the bounties, i.e. cab drivers and so on. Quite a few military prosecutors quit there, too. (
Seventh Guantanamo Prosecutor resigns over ethical issues, Friday, September 26, 2008.)
BUT hey, it's always been obvious who the a**holes are.