"Four top members of Congress, including now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, got a close look at CIA overseas detention sites and interrogation techniques in September 2002 and offered no challenge to their legitimacy, according to a news article out Sunday, in the Washington Post. On the contrary, at least two lawmakers involved in the briefing that day questioned whether the CIA was pushing hard enough, even after hearing the details of the now widely criticized technique known as waterboarding, two US officials told The Washington Post. that The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough, one official is quoted saying. ... Waterboarding has since become the pariah of interrogation techniques. Porter Goss, a former CIA director and congressman who chaired the House intelligence panel at the time of the briefings, told The Post, 'Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing, and the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement.' " Yet today, all of them are complaining about it being "too much. "Even Pelosi, who succumbed to the Islamic demand that she "cover her head" when she was in an Islamic land. [Emphasis mine. -RT] (Rush Limbaugh, 12/10/07)
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