Nancy Pelosi Issues Statement On Torture Briefing
This is from a post at Majikhise.
Nancy Pelosi says told in the fall of 2002 that certain torture techniques were legal and that the Administration was considering making use of them.
Spencer Ackerman of TPMM recently posted Pelosi’s official statement on the matter:
“On one occasion, in the fall of 2002, I was briefed on interrogation techniques the Administration was considering using in the future. The Administration advised that legal counsel for the both the CIA and the Department of Justice had concluded that the techniques were legal.
“I had no further briefings on the techniques. Several months later, my successor as Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman, was briefed more extensively and advised the techniques had in fact been employed. It was my understanding at that time that Congresswoman Harman filed a letter in early 2003 to the CIA to protest the use of such techniques, a protest with which I concurred.”
Pelosi’s statement is consistent with yesterday’s story by Warrick and Eggen in the Washington Post. The article said Pelosi was briefed about waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods in September, 2002.
Comment from Isaac Newton Kinity
Time: August 2, 2008, 5:56 pm
It is true some techniques to extract information are relatively very harsh. But a form of technique is necessary when dealing with criminals. Techniques to extract information from wrongdoers started very many years ago. This is not starting in here America. Any critism of any form of extracting information should be accompanied by a solution and therefore whoever opposses any form of extracting information from criminals should provide an alternative successful way of doing so.