She can’t deny it any more.  Nancy Pelosi knew.  So did a few others.  But unlike Jane Harmon, at the time she voiced no objection.

For no other reason than because it was in her own best interests, she managed to keep her mouth shut.  Until it became a convenient tool by which to rally those progressive liberals who hide beneath her skirts to go on a witch hunt against the Bush administration.

Now the Obama administration has released details about what our hypocritical Speaker and the others were told in confidence.  This is transparency of the most unfortunate sort.  It is a spiteful move by a mean man in yet another attempt to divert attention from his profligate ways by attempting to discredit his predecessor.  But unlike the simple shame of his bowing and his endless apologies to foreign friend and foe alike, this time he puts the country at real and present risk.

I’m no fan of torture.  But the truth is the world ain’t a Disney flick and it ain’t gonna be one any time soon, no matter how many flowery phrases roll across Obama’s teleprompter, and no matter how much the far-left wingnuts moan and wring their own blood-stained hands about it.  There are people in this world beyond the Chicago congregation of Reverend Wright who not only damn America but desperately hate America and her freedoms even more than those greedy souls who saunter the corridors in Washington.  They will not hesitate to come at us, seething in their righteous, fundamental anger, willing to take their own lives if it means taking out a few or more of ours.  And if that can be accomplished on American soil, so much the better their perceived victory.

I have learned that you can’t argue with either stupidity or insanity.  Bullies don’t lay claim to power by being nice guys and don’t understand much besides a brute force more powerful than their own.  There will be occasion that the requisite toughness of survival goes beyond the average American’s softened sensibilities, but when the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, well, all I can say is that ends sometimes DO justify means.  Yes, it sucks.  And I don’t like it one bit.  But if not for America’s willingness to be tougher than those who will gladly risk everything to destroy us, there would, in fact, be no America.  President Obama has just told those who hate us there will be no real reason to fear us should they again attempt what was thought unthinkable before September 11, 2001.

The world has always been a dangerous place.  The hypocrisy of this administration would be cause for laughter if it hadn’t just made it even more so.