Charles Krauthammer explains why - - -
. . . The time to protest torture, if you really are as outraged as [Pelosi] now pretend [s] to be, is when the CIA tells you what it is planning to do "in the future."
But Pelosi did nothing. No protest. No move to cut off funding. No letter to the president or the CIA chief or anyone else saying "Don't do it."
On the contrary, notes Porter Goss, then chairman of the House intelligence committee: The members briefed on these techniques did not just refrain from objecting, "on a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda."
More support, mind you. Which makes the current spectacle of self-righteous condemnation not just cowardly but hollow.
It is one thing to have disagreed at the time and said so.
It is utterly contemptible, however, to have been silent then and to rise now "on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009" (the words are [ Obama's director of national intelligence Dennis] Blair's) to excoriate those who kept us safe these harrowing last eight years.
Krauthammer's entire column's here at RealClearPolitics.com
Hat tip: BN
1 comments:
Can't you just imagine the tantrum from MSM if a Republican house speaker had lied through his teeth like Pelosi? Somehow "utterly contemptible" doesn't quite do it when considering she is third in line to be president and still has trouble with truth. Unprincipled and amoral are terms which come to mind.
Tarheel Hawkeye
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