Wait, did I say Bush? You know who I mean. The United States is now relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspects seized outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to current and former American government officials… (more)

Video Pelosi Is Now At War With The CIA; I Suspect They Will Destroy Her (more)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich today offered a blistering critique of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s handling of oversight on harsh interrogation tactics, in a major escalation of partisan attacks being aimed at Pelosi. In an interview with ABC News Radio’s Marcus Wilson, Gingrich, R-Ga., said Pelosi, D-Calif., “has lied to the House” in claiming that she was never briefed by the CIA about the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding and other harsh tactics. "I think she has lied to the House,... (more)

Given House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's acknowledged skill at torturing the Bush Administration in recent years, it no doubt afforded her critics some pleasure yesterday to watch her twist in the wind in front of the press over what she knew and when about the CIA's terrorist interrogations. With mockery even from Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, Mrs. Pelosi has turned herself into a spectacle about a subject that she and fellow Democrats had themselves reduced to a spectacle of demagogic accusation and blame, ... (more)

Pelosi Fuels Fire on Interrogations House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (Calif.) assertion at a press conference this morning that the Bush administration and the Central Intelligence Agency misled her and the Congress regarding the treatment of suspected terrorists adds further fuel to the fire on an issue that has been on a low boil for weeks. Asked whether she was accusing the CIA of lying to her during a 2002 briefing on the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques," Pelosi said: "Yes, misl... (more)

When President Obama said he would release some of the CIA transcripts covering incidents of "enhanced interrogation techniques" he told his chief of staff and press secretary to put out the word that this was the end of the matter; that it was time to look forward and, no, there would be no prosecutions. Obama thought this was just the right sop to throw to Cerberus, Cerberus being the far-left wing of the Democratic Party. Instead, he was unleashing the dogs of war. These, the MoveOn.org/Daily Kos ... (more)

Here we go again. The US will release dozens of pictures depicting prisoner abuse by the American military and intelligence agents after the Obama administration dropped an appeal to block a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU. Will these pictures have the same demoralizing effect on both the troops and the CIA? (more)

Democratic Leaders of Congress were briefed at more than 30 meetings on enhanced interrogation techniques since 2002. Speaker Pelosi was told about the interrogation of Al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah that included waterboarding in 2002 and did not raise any objections. FOX News reported: Republicans, hoping to turn the tables on Democrats who are open to prosecuting Bush-era lawyers for justifying "enhanced" interrogation techniques, are seeking to reveal the names of those lawmakers who were briefed ... (more)

Not one of the liberal pundits decrying the use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) appears to have read the complete set of memos released by President Obama. I know this because I cannot find a single, plain-text version of the scanned memos anywhere on the web. And, the most critical section — the results obtained from EITs — is nowhere to be found. ... (more)

Just came to me: Now that the cat is out of the box regarding the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques - to the delight of liberals across the country but to the detriment of our safety and security, I think it’s safe to say that their “outrage” over the alleged “outting” of Valerie Plame due to “national security” concerns was more like … Fauxtrage! (more)