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Originally Posted by 8ballrollin
It's too bad the Bush administration and the CIA acted without oversight. I think Nancy and Bob Graham would have put a stop to waterboarding. Oh...that's right, I forgot Congress does have oversight over intelligence and receives briefing on the legality of their programs methods; it's their job.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us...nted=3&_r=1&hp |
While I find it disturbing that anyone could ever approve these tactics, Pelosi certainly included, I am less troubled by political approval of the tactics than I am by the legal opinions which enabled the political approval, except to the extent the politicians drove the lawyers to reach a certain conclusion and then used that legal conclusion as a tool to persuade other politicians to approve the conduct as well.