Pardon My Politics

Many are finding it disturbing that President Barack Obama initially gave the “all clear” signal to the Justice Department to investigate and seek criminal prosecutions against Bush Administration lawyers for the legal advice they gave relative to enhanced interrogation methods against terrorists in the aftermath of 9-11.

The situation is murky because it has also come to light that many members of Congress – from both parties – were briefed on these interrogations and voiced no opposition at the time of the briefing.

The shock that some lib­er­als dis­play in light of the Democrats’ com­plic­i­ty (or at least com­pli­ance) to the “harsh in­ter­ro­ga­tion tech­niques” is in it­self shock­ing. Are we to be­lieve Congress has nev­er tak­en the time to in­ves­ti­gate and dis­cov­er the acts in­side the in­ter­ro­ga­tion room?