Reply #9: Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but if not... [View All]

[warren pease]

Giving her that "virtual tour" back in 2002 of the CIA's offshore black sites and revealing the use of waterboarding as a standard interrogation method was a genius move.

By not immediately going public and condemning the CIA's routine use of torture, she tacitly agreed to ignore gross violations of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, which made her an accessory after the fact to the Bush administration's war crimes.

By her silence, Pelosi's also complicit in BushCo's daily violations of worldwide bans on torture, a breach of Article VI of the Constitution that requires the US to comply with international treaties to which it's a signatory and, yes, that's another war crime.

All the above put her right in the administration's deepest pocket and completely eliminated her as a political threat.

And any time she might have considered killing a military appropriations bill or actually putting impeachment on the table, she might get a quick phone call or email from some untraceable source who would remind her that her continued cooperation would be much appreciated and, by the way, she could be busted at any moment as a war criminal and be doing serious time in a supermax federal pen by the next full moon.

Makes a certain kind of twisted sense, given how she's been the queen of BushCo enablers since January 2007.


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