[marron]

Or she and the Dems could just admit that a tough interrogation is not torture, that in war-time your intelligence agencies have to do whatever it takes to obtain information and if you’ve sent these men into war you have a responsibility to stand behind them whichever way the political winds blow. They could just admit that and we could move on.

[JohnBrowdie]

when you are a liberal democrat representative from the people’s republic of marin county, and CBS News doesn’t buy your line . . . you are in serious, SERIOUS trouble.

[Califelephant]

“...Andrew Cohen is CBS News’ Chief Legal Analyst and Legal Editor...”

It should read: “Andrew Cohen is CBS News’ Chief LIBERAL Legal Analyst and LIBERAL Legal Editor”. This item (read the whole thing) could just as easily have been written by a spokesperson for the ACLU.

[mentor2k]

Do we expect a new crisis to develop diverting attention or will Obama throw her under the bus?

[SamuraiScot]

what Pelosi’s complicit silence does not do is exonerate the men who drafted the torture memos and the men and women who authorized them to do so. Their degree of culpability for this mess is an order of magnitude more profound than is Pelosi’s.

Exactly. Only the opposite. They were doing the job they were asked to do—research and argument—by the decision-making body of which she was an influential member. The responsibility is squarely hers.

Not that a dip in the CIA swimming pool, upside-down, is actually torture. If they keep their limbs and fingernails, it's not torture.