From Little Green Footballs:
In 2002, Nancy Pelosi was a member of a bipartisan group that was made aware of harsh interrogation techniques being used with Islamic terrorists in US custody—and the group not only approved of the tactics (including waterboarding), they asked the CIA to push harder [1].
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
“The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,” said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.
I hope that none of you were surprised by this turn of events. The bottom line is, that even the democrats came to the conclusion that what we were doing was the right thing to do. So, their complaints about ‘Torture” now, are all so much sewage.
Not an unusual turn of events for the democrats, I must say. I’ve been telling you all along the Democrats don’t give a damn about ‘morality’ of any stripe. Their objections now are exactly what I told you they were about: Democrat party power, and nothing more. AS I said elsewhere, only yesterday:
… let’s not be fooled here. The largest part of the screaming these days is coming from a group of people who is looking desperately for something / anything to hang on the current administration so as to gain political power. The people who were screaming the loudest about this business, don’t give a damn about our morality. They are only interested in political power.
Memorandum has more, of course.