A position on waterboarding, please

If you oppose waterboarding, ok.  If you support it, that's fine too.  And if your position has "evolved," just say so.  But Nancy Pelosi seems to want a fourth option:  To lie about her position.  Mark Steyn at National Review:

"Question: What does Nancy Pelosi think of waterboarding?

No, I mean really. Away from the cameras, away from the Capitol, in the deepest recesses of her (if she’ll forgive my naivete) soul. Sitting on a mountaintop, contemplating the distant horizon, chewing thoughtfully on a cranberry-almond granola bar, what does she truly believe about waterboarding?

Does she support it? Well, according to the CIA, she did way back when, over six years ago.

Does she oppose it? According to Speaker Pelosi, yes. In her varying accounts, she’s (a) accused the CIA of consciously 'misleading the Congress of the United States' as to what they were doing; (b) admitted to having been briefed that waterboarding was in the playbook but that 'we were not — I repeat — were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used'; (c) belatedly conceded that she’d known back in February 2003 that waterboarding was being used but had been apprised of the fact by “a member of my staff.” As she said on Thursday, instead of doing anything about it, she decided to focus on getting more Democrats elected to the House."


Read the rest here.

Thanks, David.
 

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