Yesterday, the liberal press lived up to its name and went after Cheney, Rove, Gonzales and the rest of the cabal for their rolls in torturing prisoners of war. Naturally, Democrat Nancy Pelosi got a free pass despite allegations that she had been briefed on their plans during secret classified meetings and didn't immediately go public with the classified information.

Oh wait - that's not what happened? The press didn't go after Cheney?... or Rove?... or Gonzales?... They went after Pelosi like piranhas in a bone-cleaning feeding frenzy? The "liberal media"?? Really?

Yes really. For the past couple of days, the press has been raking her over the coals, asking "what did she know and when did she know it?" as if it was HER responsibility to manage the White House's foreign policy. Never mind the guys that decided to use torture, or the guys that tortured the law itself to extract bogus legal rationale for it, or the sick puppies that implemented it. If the press went after them then they would be accused of being partisan liberal media. So instead, they go after the female Speaker of the House, because she's an easier target.

For Chrissakes, Rove practically admitted that they tortured, in print in a column in the Wall Street Journal. How bold is that? Meanwhile, Cheney is on Torture Tour 2009, telling everyone that can stomach it that "torture works". Maybe it's just me, but isn't saying that torture works pretty much admitting that yes, they tortured? On top of that, Cheney - the man who guarded the secrets of the Kingdom as closely as the Colonel guards the recipe of those 16 herbs and spices - is asking for classified documents to be released to prove it. Sadly for him, the rules they put in place to keep that from happening before are keeping it from happening now. Kharma's a bitch.

We have testimony in Congress from a former FBI interrogator that they were getting good info until the CIA showed up and started torturing the captives. We now have the former chief of staff to Colin Powell coming forward and describing how Cheney was pressing for torture to create a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. So the truth shows how wrong Cheney really is, because torture didn't keep America safe, it got us embroiled in a war of Cheney's choosing. The victim agreed to false information to make the torture stop.

But hey - the CIA said they briefed Pelosi on it, so that's all that matters, right? They wouldn't lie to us would they? Not that bastion of honesty the CIA!...

Except - they apparently did. Bob Graham has shown that the CIA made up two dates where they claimed he'd been briefed (apparently, this isn't the first time that the CIA did this). So the fact that they are making claims about meetings that didn't happen, and information that didn't get disclosed kind of throws into question the whole rationale for the witch hunt swirling around Pelosi. As one would expect (and to some extent - hope), she is fighting back and claiming that the CIA misled her. Again feigned shock - the CIA misled her? The group that was front and center with the torturing? Why would they do that? :sarcasm:

This whole thing stinks of the projection, deflection, and misdirection we've been seeing the last eight years. Whenever some scandal hit the news in years past, it seems like there was always some other more important story that was getting ignored. Like the magician sneaking another ball out of his left pocket while the audience is watching the fancy finger work of the right, we've seen time and again how easily they dupe a complicit press to go after the sensational story, when the important one is right there waiting to be reported, ignored.

It seems too obvious this time, but like all things lately, they seem to have lost their touch. Pelosi is becoming the fall guy for the people that actually request, approved, and performed the torture. I just hope America wakes up and realizes they are being duped again.