The former Director of the CIA, Porter Goss , seems to be getting ready for a fight. He has provided a compelling case as to why the Democrats in Congress should win the Hypocrisy Award for shameless politics. I'd bet my house the radical left and the White House failed to use a little game theory in trying to predict how this interrogation drama would unfold. In a sick twisted way, perhaps a show trial on Capitol Hill would be a good thing if only to demonstrate to the American people the hand that Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues had in approving strong interrogation techniques after 9/11.
From the Washington Post
Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as “waterboarding” were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.
Let me be clear. It is my recollection that:
– The chairs and the ranking minority members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, known as the Gang of Four, were briefed that the CIA was holding and interrogating high-value terrorists.
– We understood what the CIA was doing.
– We gave the CIA our bipartisan support.
– We gave the CIA funding to carry out its activities.
– On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda.
I do not recall a single objection from my colleagues.
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