Pelosi or Cheney? Who's the Torturer in Chief? (Laura Flanders)

[struggle4progress]

... Did they order abuse specifically to extract an Al Qaeda/ Saddam Hussein link? Maybe. But we'll never know, because instead of even asking the question, the headline story in the media has become: "Nancy Pelosi is a hypocrite."

"Pelosi a hypocrite" vs. "Cheney okayed torture for political reasons:" It seems easy to pick the hotter scoop. Yet David Gregory (of Meet the Press) was all over Pelosi, as were the rest of the Sunday squawkers this weekend. On Fox News they talk about almost nothing else. Why didn't the House speaker push back harder? When did she actually know what? Was she right to hold a press conference blaming the CIA? They're not bad questions. They're important questions. But when it comes to torture, is Pelosi the thorn or the point?

"This is not where the White House wants the public discussion to be," Gregory said on Morning Joe. Too right. But it's bigger than that. On this question of torture-for-war or Pelosi political mis-step, it's not just the White House that wants a different conversation. It's America. We need accountability for torture -- and prosecutions -- if we don't want heinous practices to continue. And we need a press that grasps, not avoids, the serious questions. Scrutinize Pelosi all you like -- but right after Cheney's shut up and Bybee's off the bench.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/437037/pelosi_or_cheney_who_s_the_torturer_in_chief_

[MasonJar]

1. MTP goofed when it installed David Gregory. He's very biased.

Even a "moran" should realize this is not about Pelosi, but they (MSM)do not want to expose the truth because they are still, despite the fact that it will destroy them and/or the nation, in lockstep with the Bushista. May they rest in un-peace.