On May 8, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > from Greenwald: > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/08-16 > > But what's the point of all of this? Secretly telling Nancy Pelosi > that you're committing crimes doesn't mean that you have the right > to do so. And the profound failures of the other institutions that > are supposed to check executive lawbreaking during the Bush era -- > principally Congress and the "opposition party" -- is a vital issue > that demands serious examination. This dispute over what Pelosi > (and Jay Rockefeller and others) knew highlights, rather than > negates, the need for a meaningful investigation into what took place.
This is exactly right. Most people on 'the left' seem to be as eager to investigate dems as repubs. The truth is that Pelosi had a pretty good idea by 2004 about what was going on because everyone in America did by then. I don't think the details about what she did or didn't know in 2002 matter very much. She didn't personally vote for the Military commissions act but she didn't expend any political capital trying to stop it either. And the fact is that she is *still* not trying to stop it. She isn't doing anything about Bagram although that place is at least as bad as Gitmo. - God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much like their own image of him. -Kenneth Patchen _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
