{"id":10690,"date":"2009-05-14T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2009-05-14T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:03:20","slug":"the-circular-firing-squad-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10690","title":{"rendered":"The Circular Firing Squad Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/figureskatingcrashcopyed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/figureskatingcrashcopyed1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"figureskatingcrashcopyed1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/figureskatingcrashcopyed1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/figureskatingcrashcopyed1.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you find yourself ten feet deep in a hole; drop the shovel.<\/p>\n<p>San Fran Nan apparently never <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0509\/Pelosi_Bush_briefers_lied_to_me.html\">heard that sage wisdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pelosi: Bush briefers lied to me <\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Bush administration told her explicitly they weren&#8217;t using waterboarding on terror detainees during a Sept. 2002 briefing on interrogation tactics &#8212; months after they had begun waterboarding Abu Zabaydah. <\/p>\n<p>Pelosi also called on CIA director Leon Panetta to release full details on her briefing &#8212; and shook her head in the affirmative when asked if the administration had actually &#8220;lied&#8221; to her. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only mention of waterboarding in the briefing was that it was not being employed,&#8221; she told reporters, reading from a prepared statement &#8212; twice for emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence briefers gave Pelosi, she said, &#8220;inaccurate and incomplete information.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is going to get real ugly.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt Penetta is pounding out some Power Point presentations showing Dick Cheney personally waterboarding small children and unicorns but this is not going to make this issue go away.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a ton of mud tossed about and Langley will start leaking all over the place.  Frankly, I don\u2019t think Pelosi has the intelligence or political savvy to survive the coming storm.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently her number two in the House <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/mark_i\/2009\/05\/12\/hoyer-investigate-pelosi-too\/\">doesn\u2019t think so either<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Tuesday that investgations into the Bush Administration\u2019s use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques should look at what congressional leaders, including Speaker Pelosi, knew about the use of the methods that have been criticized as torture. [&#8230;]<br \/>\n\u201cFrankly, information about what was said, when it was said, who said it, that ought to be on the record so the American public knows.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Making Hoyer your number two is like hiring Tony Soprano to guard the bank.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a nice Speakership you got there Ms. Pelosi; wouldn\u2019t want anything to happen to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you find yourself ten feet deep in a hole; drop the shovel. 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