Glenn Greenwald writes Distorting public opinion on torture investigations. It boggles my mind that Democrats are letting Republicans play out the Nancy Pelosi issue. If they think torture was right, what do they think Pelosi did?
I've never agreed with Obama's "let get past this" notion. Bush blew the public opinion of the world and finding out publicly exactly what he did is the only way to get it back. If releasing more photos of what we did might enflame some people, imagine what trying a former Vice President for war crimes would do to calm them down?
And am I the only one who remembers the tactics the Bush administration did with warrantless wiretapping? They didn't inform the whole oversight committee just the leaders. And since it was classified the leaders couldn't bring it up with the whole committee and therefore couldn't do anything about it. The administration could say top Democrats were briefed and didn't care. Is this was happened with Pelosi and torture?
And honestly, if the Democrats had a spine about defending our constitution and weren't always afraid of the public opinion polls the republicans will always use against them, then they wouldn't have gotten themselves into this mess. Ugh.
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