http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31689 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had a bad week. Caught between her own involvement in the CIA interrogations now condemned as torture and her partyâs inquisitions, Pelosi floundered. Her fear and frustration have apparently given way to panic after word reached her of the CIAâs reaction to the damage she, President Obama and other Democrats have done to the spy agency in the last three months. Pelosi -- as I wrote earlier in the week -- was one of the few members of Congress briefed in detail on the harsh interrogation methods and who could have stopped them but didnât. Pelosi first said that she wasnât briefed about waterboarding. Then she sort of admitted she had, inserting that the CIA only said that they might do it, not that they were going to do it. Which could have been plagiarized from John Kerryâs 2004 circular explanation of his vote for the war in Iraq. As badly as that hurt Pelosi, what apparently pushed her into a panic was the feedback she and other Democrats are getting from the CIA. Pelosi learned that her actions, and those of President Obama and other Democrats over the past ninety days have so damaged CIA morale that the agencyâs ability to function could be in danger.
Doubtful. More likely, any fear or panic Pelosi may feel are the consequences of the public finding out about her own role in this "national shame".