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News flash for you bleeding hearts, waterboarding is NOTHING compared to what U.S. and/or allied prisoners experience in the captivity of the enemy. Whose side are you people on anyway?

Send all 41 members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to jail if Bush and/or Cheney are ever found guilty of torture. These two Congressional groups had the responsibility to stop any activity they thought was illegal. Failure to act on their part means they approve of the action, and therefore just as guilty. Send them all to jail if that be the case, including the Speaker of the House.

I SUPPORT THE CIA OFFICIALS.

CIA did nothing wrong in waterboarding al Qaeda suspects.

When terrorists kill innocent is that not torture? All the people who are against the CIA, need to also know about the torture techniques of the terrorists.

Terrorists torture children, women and even elderly by piercing into their eyes, dousing children in Acid. Have we forgotten the 8 years old boy from Iraq who was doused in Acid in Iraq and came to US for plastic surgery. Terrorists even dismember the limbs and torture people to death.

Terrorists are ruthless, merciless and barbaric animals.

There is a saying “to prevent a greater harm, it is ok to inflict a minor harm”.

Waterboarding does not cause any disability on the person who is waterboared, but it helps to get information about the terrorists who can cause great harm, like the 9/11.

The republican's made the mistake of assuming that they would always be the party in power. Too bad for them that they got caught and are now backpedaling furiously. Torture is against the law. ANYONE, republicans included, who authorize torture, should be prosecuted and put in JAIL.

I am an ardent Obama supporter but i think the release of those memos to the public in the first place is not well thought out. Obama did the right thing with the executive orders that reverse course. Let's just move on. Now you dont want to prosecute the implementers but said the AG should decide to prosecute those who advised or promulgayed the ideas or gave approval. I know the administration intention is good but what about the judgement for the memos release....

Pelosi was ranking member of the House Intelligence committee and says she didn't know? And you liberals say Cheney lies.

If you believe Pelosi, I have a mansion in Florida I want to sell you real cheap.

The American people need to realize that the Bush administration lied to everyone who was involved! No one was told the truth about anything because that's the way they operated. The lies started the day he took office and continued for eight horrible years! He lied about why we went to war and everything from that moment on! They deliberately misled every person who asked any questions and removed them from their jobs if they continued to question them. Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush.......all of them need to be reminded that nobody is above the law!

S.E.R.E. – Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract

This is the training that our Navy Seals go thru. The letter of S.E.R.E. which is most relevant here is the letter R(RESIST). This training is necessary in the case if our soldiers were captured, they will be able to RESIST torture. So yeah, we put our soldiers through that training, but that training isn't supposed to be used on detainees.

How is it that anyone can think torture is a good idea? If another country tortured any one of Americas citizens suspected of committing a crime our citizens would be up in arms about it. We have become the country of "do what I say not what I do"

Well then Ms. Pelosi, I assume your words mean that you would have waited until a crime was committed before you objected to a crime that you new may be commited.

These people really are the laughingstock of the country, all by the way thanks to Obama's lack of insight.

The seeds have been planted.
If this is prosecuted, it needs to be done right.
And 'right' usually means 'patience' in such matters.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi — a then-ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee — vehemently said "we were not, I repeat, we were not told that waterboarding or other enhanced methods were used."

And then speaker Pelosi nose grew by a foot. She knew and there is proof waiting that shows that she knew.

We suspected Cheney was involved in the torture, and now we know positively. Why elese is he and the republicans saying torture is okay.
They're a disgusting bunch and should be in jail.

Politics of torture?

The bad monkeys from years of Republican rule are flying home to roost.

Will Holder go after House and Senate Democrats who signed off on the interrogation of these terrorists??

No, he'll be too big of a .... oh what's that word Holder likes to use??... COWARD.

Let's publish the names of the democrats that signed off on the use of waterboarding, ought to be an interesting list.

Poor Obama. This may take all the attention away from his agenda.
He needs to take a firm stand one way or another on prosecuting Bush higherups, not this hinting bs. Otherwise, he will look worse and worse and he tries to play the middle ground, which will only raise the rhetoric. Too bad he didn't have more experience coming into the office.
Economy? What economy? What is BO going to do about Bush will be what is heard.

Peolsi is a liar and now she wants to crush any ethics probes of democrats while calling for which hunts on republicans. I guess, "we won" means we will keep absolute power one piece at a time.

"Why are the details coming out now and not before", asks John Boehner? Let's start with Dick (aka- I didn't do anything wrong- Nixon) Cheney and work down the list from there. It was done on a Republican watch, with a Republican Congress, being led by a Republican Administration.

It should be heating up! Professor Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law professor, says that we, DIMINISH OUR NATION, and ALL it stands for when we allow Bush/Cheney to get away with torturing our prisoners.

I for one, will continue to speak out, and to demand that Bush/Cheney be tired for war crimes!

Come on CNN, you need to do a special on what the torture of prisoners by Bush/Cheney, its up to the Free Press to bring these horrors to the attention of the American people!

You are telling me that several DEMS. knew about it back in 2002. They don't read bills, and they lie about what they knew at the time. Come on people when we elect these people to washington they should be doing their job better then this.

Pelosi, you're nothing but a lowlife liar. You Democrats were happy to sign off on this stuff when it was saving lives, but when a true blue liberal took office and started talking about prosecuting people, you go running and whining you knew nothing about it.

Count me as unsurprised that Pelosi is CHA on this. She's nothing but a congenital liar.

The Culture of Corruption is back and Pelosi is the leader.

The question is how do we deal with this dark period of American history, confront it as we would expect other nations to do if it were theirs, or attempt to pretend that it never occurred and hope that no one in the international community would take action against individual they beleive committed human rights violations and committed crimes against international law.

This is why Wright was saying what he was saying. Seems like Wright was right. No No No, not god bless american, but ...
Boner says "and now all of a sudden ..." Wrong Boner, it was wrong then and it is wrong now.

Once again the Republican Fascist Party of America is trying to obscure their complicity in this matter and try to drag others into their fascist-style governance. The Bushwacky Administration pulled another fast one on Congress with the "enhanced interrogation briefing" slight of hand, just like they did with the articles of war for the Iraq War. Just enough to say "but we told you," escape clause, without having to fully admit they only told half the truth.

Now we know for a fact the Republican Fascists have not only ruined our economy with their deregulatory free-market thuggery, they dragged us into two (2) wars and destroyed our international reputation with their torture.

Einstein once said: "The only difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has an upper limit". The Republican Fascists have proven there is no upper limit to their ignorance, their stupidity and their thuggery.

Deal with it, your grand pooba is being called to the floor for the war crimes he committed. Your argument of "hey, even though we were doing wrong, we should have been called for it then, but not now since we got away with it" is retarded.

Pelosi had no idea what was going on, she just voted for the funding. This I can believe.

Who were the members of congress that received briefings? What did they know?

"...and now all of a sudden these are terrible practices."

No, they were ALWAYS bad practices, you said so yourself, John.

The republicans are squirming like tuna surrounded like dolphin.

Torture is inhuman, illegal and un-American. Those who supported it or found redeeming value to it should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And the Democrats, Pelosi first should have tried to learn the truth, instead of being the usual cowards. Remember that everyone, except Russ Feingold (bless him) voted for the USA PATRIOT Act without even reading it !

now wait a second............you are not suggesting that Democrats are lieing hypocrites are you...........................?? shocking!!!!!!!

and you representative should be ashamed for saying it is

Bush endorsed it, NOT the country