The United States appears to be illegally torturing terror suspects contrary to denials by President George Bush, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday.
The country's highest ranking Democrat also said she still hoped to get most US troops out of Iraq by the end of next year, despite the party's repeated failure to win over enough Republicans in Congress to an exit strategy.
Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, Pelosi said reported interrogation tactics such as simulated drowning, head slapping and exposure to extreme temperatures all amounted to banned torture.
"There is a legal definition of torture that I believe this would fit. The president says it is not," she said.
But the House speaker said she had received only limited briefings from the Bush administration on its interrogation tactics, and had not seen a controversial memo issued in 2005 by the Justice Department.
She didn't get the memo...ha ha ha .....It is her job to know what the executive branch is doing...checks and balances and all that....these spineless democrats have turned a blind eye to these issues willfully...after all, the fear mongering helps keep the sheeple subservient, which will be to their benefit when the reins of power over the American dictatorship pass to them in 2008, with the added benefit of being able to blame Bushco for it all...let us not forget that every one of these people in Congress has allowed these abuses to go on, complicit in them by direct action in some cases and by inaction in others...therefore, they are just as guilty as the Bush/Cheney cabal for each and every one.
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