Democrats: It’s Unfair When Our Whipping Boys Won’t Stay Whipped
This is, quite frankly, pretty appalling:
Democrats charged Tuesday that the CIA has released documents about congressional briefings on harsh interrogation techniques in order to deflect attention and blame away from itself.
“I think there is so much embarrassment in some quarters [of the CIA] that people are going to try to shift some of the responsibility to others – that’s what I think,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was briefed on interrogation techniques five times between 2006 and 2007.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said he finds it “interesting” that a document detailing congressional briefings was released just as “some of the groups that have been responsible for these interrogation techniques were taking the most criticism.”
Asked whether the CIA was seeking political cover by releasing the documents, Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said: “Sure it is.”
The CIA has long been on the receiving end of harsh rebukes from Congress – on intelligence failures leading up to the war in Iraq, on secret prisons abroad and on the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects. But with the release of records showing that it briefed members of Congress along the way, the CIA has effectively put lawmakers on the defensive.
Have you noticed? The non-stop yelping by the media and the left-leaning political class over the ”torture” memos has essentially stopped since the CIA revealed that Democrats – and especially Nancy Pelosi herself – were, indeed, briefed on the enhanced methods? And not one of them lifted a hand to stop the “torture”.
Now they’re whining that they can’t take cheap shots after the fact with complete immunity from actual facts?
Wow. Just wow.
By Mark E, May 12, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
They think it’s ok though when the CIA leaked like a sieve with stuff that was damaging to Bush?
Such hypocrites this makes them look like.