Nancy Pelosi vs. The CIA

What a week it’s been! The whole repub right wing establishment has piled on Nancy demanding a hearing on whether she lied about the CIA misleading her. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052101812.html] When notes of the CIA briefings were examined by other members discrepancies about who was briefed, what and when, crept in! now, it seems the cia (probably deliberately) kept no transcripts of the briefings, only the recollections of the briefers! [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/AR2009052203682.html] Yet another impasse.


The CIA and all other intelligence groups can never prove anything, ever, because they can’t declassify current intel. They can never prove that anything they’ve done has saved us from any harm! All these agencies can do is ask the public to believe what they say, and there’s no good reason to believe organizations setup to lie and break the laws of other countries, especially when they’re caught committing war crimes.


All Nancy has to do at this point is to clearly call on the CIA to prove it briefed her on water boarding. She need only call for all of the documentation presented at all of the briefings to be declassified, and the whole issue is over!


However, Nancy has stumbled all over this. Now she refuses to say anything, looking guilty as hell. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/AR2009052200339.html] How can she be so slow? How can all of the news orgs be so slow as well? No one (until perhaps yesterday) has challenged the CIA to prove its assertions! We’ve been buried in a pile of nonsense (again) because everyone is too stupid to call for proof. We have dumbed down to the point where we can no longer apply logic to extricate ourselves from simple situations.


Do you see why I named this blog ‘Four Corners’? America always seems to end up at ‘Four Corners’, just to find there’s no there…there.