Pot-Kettle-Black Moment of the Day: Karl Rove on "Credibility" and Torture

Karl Rove, The Washington Post, 21 May 2009: "The kerfluffle over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's CIA briefing on enhanced interrogation matters a lot. First, there's the question of credibility."

The Question of Credibility: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction and Link to 9-11. The Suspended Hunt for Osama bin Laden. Federal Budget Deficits. The Firing of Justice Department Prosecutors on Political Grounds. Katrina.

George W. Bush, 7 November 2005: "We do not torture."

Torture: The Pelosi "Controversy" in One Sentence

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I have consciously avoided all comment on the furour --- whipped up by former Bush Administration officials and their supporters --- over how much Nancy Pelosi (pictured), the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, knew about the torture programme from 2002. I have done so not out of political bias or a lack of academic interest (for example, the limits on Congress' oversight of illegal activity when an exclusive group of 4 or 8 legislators are given some information --- and thus sworn to secrecy --- over that activity). I have done so because this is a blatant attempt by those who served Bush to deflect attention from their actions.

I will break silence, however, to post this question which I put to Mr Karl Rove, a Bush advisor, when he wrote that Pelosi was an "accomplice to 'torture'" (I received no reply):

If Nancy Pelosi is an accomplice to a felony.....

Who are the felons?