Eric Boehlert on Pelosi and polls.

The Daily Beast: Cheney’s Role Deepens

“To those who wanted or suspected a relationship, he would have been a guy who would know, so [White House officials] had particular interest,” Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraqi Survey Group and the man in charge of interrogations of Iraqi officials, told me. So much so that the officials, according to Duelfer, inquired how the interrogation was proceeding.

In his new book, Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq, and in an interview with The Daily Beast, Duelfer says he heard from “some in Washington at very senior levels (not in the CIA),” who thought Khudayr’s interrogation had been “too gentle” and suggested another route, one that they believed has proven effective elsewhere. “They asked if enhanced measures, such as waterboarding, should be used,” Duelfer writes. “The executive authorities addressing those measures made clear that such techniques could legally be applied only to terrorism cases, and our debriefings were not as yet terrorism-related. The debriefings were just debriefings, even for this creature.”

Please explain to me why now the minority party gets the majority of air time and print space and the most number of chairs at discussions/roundtables. (Except here of course I only watched ABC last Sunday morning which had 2 extreme righties, George Will, 1 liberal (Katrina) and James Carville who you never know whose side he’s on.

The public’s interest are not being served.

Anyone who has read anything by Bob Parry isn’t surprised by any of this.

The treatment Pelosi is getting is her reward for not pushing for impeachment of Bush while he was in office. this parallels perfectly with how Clinton was treated after he became president and told his people that investigations of crimes committed by the Reagan and Bush administrations were off the table. He was rewarded with impeachment and an obstinate Republican majority in the House determined to stall anything he tried to accomplish.

Obama should learn from Clinton’s experience. He is walking in Bubba’s footsteps and the GOP takes inaction towards its crimes as weakness and its minions will attack Obama and try to destroy anything he tries to do that is not in keeping with their agenda.

I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it. Obama needs to have impeachment proceedings started against him for failure to investigate and prosecute war crimes and other high crimes committed by the previous administration. If Dennis Kucinich is really a progressive he will be the guy to get the ball rolling. Adherence to the constitution and execution of the laws of this country should not be handcuffed by party membership.

Otherwise Kucinich shows himself as just a tool of the Democrats who runs in order to neutralize the radical tendencies in the Democratic Party electorate and then delivers his supporters to the lesser of two evils when the election comes. So far he’s been able to fool a lot of people, but the act is getting old.

Please explain to me why now the minority party gets the majority of air time and print space and the most number of chairs at discussions/roundtables.

Because the media is controlled by, owned by, and/or frightened of conservatives and Republicans, and has increasingly been so for the past four decades, ever since Nixon took power in 1969.

That’s why I call them “the GOP/Media Complex”.

Because the media is controlled by, owned by, and/or frightened of conservatives and Republicans, and has increasingly been so for the past four decades, ever since Nixon took power in 1969.

That I know. I want to know why they are still allowed to control the message?

You can spare the speech on the Fairness Doctrine, I’m looking for the big answer as to why it’s still going on? How can you have so many people essentially on the take?

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!