Pelosi Knew...She Should Resign

Speaker Nancy Pelosi admits knowing of CIA torture of detainees by early 2003. That's complicity in torture, plain and simple. She should go.

CIA Tortured Two Detainees 266 Times

More appalling news from the torture front. The CIA waterboarded two detainees almost 300 times over a one month period. One detainee was tortured 83 times in August 2002. And Khalid Sheikh Mohamed was tortured 183 times in March 2003. These details come out of the Bush Administration torture memos recently released by the Obama Administration, and they give lie to the claims that waterboarding was used sparingly and in accordance with official guidelines.

Endorsing Torture

The Bush Administration rushed in 2003 and 2004 to cover the CIA's ass after it started torturing people. The memos indicate that White House policymakers directly endorsed "controversial interrogation methods" including waterboarding:

It came up in the daily meetings. We heard it from our field officers," said a former senior intelligence official familiar with the events. "We were already worried that we" were going to be blamed.

This is just more fuel on the fire. The most criminal, wreckless, and blatantly avaristic administration in US history hasn't surprised me much, so throw this on the pile.