"It's important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full investigation. In other words, we want to know the truth. In our country, when there's an allegation of abuse ... there will be a full investigation, and justice will be delivered. ... It's very important for people and your listeners to understand that in our country, when an issue is brought to our attention on this magnitude, we act. And we act in a way in which leaders are willing to discuss it with the media. ... In other words, people want to know the truth. That stands in contrast to dictatorships. A dictator wouldn't be answering questions about this. A dictator wouldn't be saying that the system will be investigated and the world will see the results of the investigation."
And on the treatment of war crimes: "War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, ‘I was just following orders."
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Shall we begin by prosecuting Nancy Pelosi who was briefed on use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’?
Ktisophilos:
It's unclear whether the details of the use of waterboarding were part of the briefing.
(Also see this.)
Yet even the überliberal Daily Kos about 18 months ago referred to Pelosi's "complicity over the last five years."
Here is the soi-disant non-partisan FactCheck.org piece:
Pelosi's Tortured Denials21 May 2009
The facts behind the speaker's changing story about her knowledge of CIA waterboarding.
I'm fine with adding Pelosi to the list of officials to be punished for complicity in torture.
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