Diva, you’ve missed the point of this particular thread.

Certainly the Republicans will be quite happy to see this self-righteous old lady forced out by her own lies and delusions. She has built her power base by pandering to the paranoid “victim mentality” of her party’s extreme left and has damaged this country just as much as the Bush administration. She should have known that her demands for a "Truth Commission" would probably embrass her and other Democrats as much as it would the Bush administration.

However, please remember that it was the Obama administration’s selective release of the CIA torture memos, followed by Pelosi’s embarrassing responses, followed by the coup-de-gras from Obama’s CIA director that will cause her departure. The press is finally starting to take off their Rose Garden colored glasses and will soon be digging for the truth. You should recognize that the REAL battle since Election Day has not been between the Democrats and the Republicans; it’s been between the Obama Democrats and Pelosi’s more radical Democrats in Congress.

When Ms. Pelosi soon vacates the Speaker’s office (and possibly the House), I’m sure she and her posse will site the “vast right wing conspiracy.” She’ll blame the other side of the aisle for her fall when she should be blaming the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

"Certainly the Republicans will be quite happy to see this self-righteous old lady forced out by her own lies and delusions."

Hoosier, you have not been paying enough attention have you? Let's agree to come back to this blog in three to four months and see who is happy about investigations on torture.

1. The CIA director, having reviewed the notes from said CIA briefings, said they are "inconclusive" and will require further investigation.

2. Speaker Pelosi has been asking for a full investigation and full disclosure since she has been the Speaker. Do you think she wants to dig into something that will implicate her?

3. Stating that Speaker Pelosi was briefed on torture admits the previous administration tortured human beings, and I hope it lands many of them in jail, if proven.

Is the crime the KNOWING, or the ORDERING and DOING?

If anyone needs to stop talking, it's Lynn Cheney, who just attacked Col Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell's Chief of Staff, and who just called President Obama "un American" for failing to take prosecution for torture off of the table. She and her dad must be paid by the DNC.

How quickly we forget how one is elected to the House of Representatives. Pelosi's constituents are not about to recall her over this issue. The Republicans are asking her to 'prove it' or 'apologize'. The Democrats in Congress will not remove her from the Speakers Chair. Remember Barbara Lee - and the outcry when she did not vote for the war? She's still in Congress! Don't hold your breath while waiting for Pelosi's departure. (And hope, for the Republican's sake that she doesn't come up with the 'proof' of her allegation.)

If it Saved American life's then so be it, they certainly don't care about American Life's.
Obama said that the world thinks were jerks anyway, so whats the big deal. I will tell you one thing though, if we had the same political climate during WWII as we do now, we would have LOST!

Obama's weapon of Choice!

At the trials in Nuremburg. "just following orders." "it saved lives."
Do the ends justify the means? Did interring Japanese Americans "save lives?" Did rounding up Jews in Germany "save German lives?" Should we simply deport all Muslims from the U.S.?
You can justify anything now. Who will speak up for you when "they" come for you to "save lives?"

By all accounts, the waterboarding neither "saved lives" nor brought forth any useful intelligence. Torture does not beget useful information, only information to stop the torture.

"Those who trade freedom for security deserve neither."

We have found that holding a gun to the mother of a suspect's head gets good information. Pulling the trigger yields even better information. We will round up the children of suspects and shoot them in their limbs to get good info, as the ends justify the means. What has happened to the party of moral values?

It kinda has a ring to it. What did she know and when did she know it. You heard it here first.

Madam Speaker may have been present at the briefings and may have been fully advised of the CIA's actions, BUT...

She didn't inhale!

Seriously, it has been my thought since long before the first votes were cast last Fall that if Obama became President his greatest challenge to creating a non-partisan middle ground would not be the Republicans - it would be Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi's entire power base in her district and in the House has come from "ratcheting up" the partisan bickering to create a party of victims looking for villains to punish. It's looking like what goes around, comes around.

Good luck Nancy in your next gig as Keith Olberman's rabid female sidekick.

is 3rd in line as President after Biden.
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and Obama is already there, so he's not in that line, 2 heartbeats and it is President Pelosi. Do you know who is next in line behind Pelosi? That has never actually happened in history, but nowadays we need to think about a scenario that forces us to go deep on the bench. Its not pretty.

President Pelosi would probably replace CIA Director Panetta about 10 seconds after she was sworn in. I don't think Hillary's position would be safe either.

You're right. I counted the President. Princess Pelosi is #2. Robert Byrd is 3rd, Clinton 4th, and tax cheat Geithner is 5th. Yikes.
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Pretty sad when you have a top 5 list and Hillary Clinton stands out as not only the favorite, but the only credible candidate to actually be President.

Is this a great country or what?

I can picture Rahm Emanuel sitting quietly in his West Wing office on Thursday, May 14, watching Nancy Pelosi dig herself deeper into a hole.

A slow smile comes upon his face.

He picks up the phone, dials a few digits, and after a brief pause he says: “Leon, the time has come.”

Click.

Rahmbo 'dead fish' E. is simply not that smart and Leon now has access to all of the background info on both Barry and Rahm and a buttload of Chinese money .... boy I bet those files on Barry O and Rahmbo are a treasure trove of information

Super neat scenario though and I can see them taking the opportunity to further attempt to take over the entire US government .... neat scenario indeed.