Left In Lowell

Here’s living proof that its demise was prematurely declared.

Here’s what we have learned about the interrogation of detainees, torture, and the big reason, why.

• The government got some detainees from its war in Afghanistan (fought reluctantly by an administration hell-bent on a war in Iraq). They got some information from them through traditional, non-torturous means.
• None of that information tied Iraq in any way, shape or form with terrorism or Al Quada. That just wouldn’t do. They needed to find a reason to go into Iraq, dammitall.
• So they tortured a reason out of people. Brushing aside the CIA and its normal practices, according to a CIA interrogator who testified to Congress and other news reports, the contractors came in and allegedly violated our longstanding laws and treaties against torture, it appears, on behalf of one Mr. Dick Cheney.
  

  The truth is that when the CIA didn’t give Cheney the info he wanted about an Iraq-al Qaeda connection, he marginalized the agency:

  In the initial stages of the war on terror, Tenet’s CIA was rising to prominence as the lead agency in the Afghanistan war. But when Tenet insisted in his personal meetings with the president that there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, Cheney and Rumsfeld initiated a secret program to re-examine the evidence and marginalize the agency and Tenet. Through interviews with DoD staffers who sifted through mountains of raw intelligence, FRONTLINE details how questionable intelligence was “stovepiped” to the vice president and presented to the public.

• The CIA and the Bush administration “briefs” Congressional leaders on “both” sides.
• The Bush administration consistently lied, lied, lied to everyone about everything they did while in power.

So who thinks Pelosi isn’t telling the truth? Most people should believe she is in this her-versus-them moronic debate. Occam’s razor demands it, given everything that we know about the situation, don’t you think?

And yet, the media sheeples have once again, with rare exception, given in to the right wing bitch and moan brigade and now we have a slipping of the approval rates for the leader of the Democratic party in the US House.

Constant vigilance, people, these liars and cheaters are not done with this country yet.