Makes you wonder who is not being blackmailed in Washington ....

[Blackhatjack]

With the revelations that principals(like Colin Powell and John Ashcroft) not only learned of torture interrogations, but detailed them and signed off on them, it would be logical that they are subject to blackmail if they break their silence.

These are episodes of a well thought out government policy of torture and violation of the Geneva Convention, which means war crimes prosecutions are possible.

[ensho]

1. kick

nt

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. I've been beating that drum for over two years....

there is a very small list of WHY washington is complicit in the crimes of this admin.....this one sure rises to the top.

[Blackhatjack]

3. Between approving torture and sexual dalliances, there's plenty to use for blackmail purposes...

IMHO the torturer enablers make the rest look like choirboys.

[Lugnut]

4. K&R n/t

[WhiteTara]

5. you think they had to be blackmailed into silence?

Really? I would think they would never tell a soul because they would surely go to hell with their confession. Oh wait! They're going to hell anyway! But really, I would think the shame would eat them alive if they had consciouses. They swore to protect and defend the constitution and they spit on they oaths. They are traitors and I am sorely disappointed that Obama has Colin Powell on his team.

[bleever]

6. A few bad apples.

How is this not being acted upon?

K&R.

[cascadiance]

7. Since we know the domestic spying stuff started even before 9/11...

And nothing was said or done about it... And we still wonder if we're getting the full story on 9/11, you have to believe that very heavy blackmail was started VERY early in this administration to keep everyone quiet, and that's likely why we have nothing even done to really investigate 9/11 to this day, or not much on anything since then.

[KoKo]

8. Are you saying that

there are Members of Congress who signed off on the torture, too...so they would be complicit in any "war crimes" if they were ever prosecuted?

[warren pease]

9. Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but if not...

Giving her that "virtual tour" back in 2002 of the CIA's offshore black sites and revealing the use of waterboarding as a standard interrogation method was a genius move.

By not immediately going public and condemning the CIA's routine use of torture, she tacitly agreed to ignore gross violations of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, which made her an accessory after the fact to the Bush administration's war crimes.

By her silence, Pelosi's also complicit in BushCo's daily violations of worldwide bans on torture, a breach of Article VI of the Constitution that requires the US to comply with international treaties to which it's a signatory and, yes, that's another war crime.

All the above put her right in the administration's deepest pocket and completely eliminated her as a political threat.

And any time she might have considered killing a military appropriations bill or actually putting impeachment on the table, she might get a quick phone call or email from some untraceable source who would remind her that her continued cooperation would be much appreciated and, by the way, she could be busted at any moment as a war criminal and be doing serious time in a supermax federal pen by the next full moon.

Makes a certain kind of twisted sense, given how she's been the queen of BushCo enablers since January 2007.


wp

[KoKo]

10. Wonder who else....

Rockefeller for sure.. Not sure about Harmon ...

I find it hard that Nancy couldn't have opted out of being involved with that "virtual tour." But, I remember Bush smirking at a Presser when asked a question about with Pelosi would agree with him on "FISA" ...i think it was and he smirked in one of his particularly evil ways and said something like "She knows all about it." I wish I could find the exact quote and circustances...but it was one of those things that sticks in your mind when you hear it and never leaves and then you try to push it away. That was when I got very worried about Nancy. If I find the quote on Google...I'll post it.

[Kurovski]

11. Kick. (nt)