This post is very after-the-fact, but I just watched the above video and HAD to put it up for a couple of reasons. First: I love Helen Thomas. She may be the ONLY investigative journalist left in this country. And second: This is yet another example of how blatantly this administration has lied to us.
Listen to the exchange, particularly this section near the end:
THOMAS: "You are denying in this room that we torture, that we have tortured?"One has to wonder how Perino can say that with a straight face considering the evidence.
PERINO: "I am denying that."
... this is the first time sources have disclosed that a handful of the most senior advisers in the White House explicitly approved the details of the program. According to multiple sources, it was members of the Principals Committee that not only discussed specific plans and specific interrogation methods, but approved them. [...]I must agree with Ms. Thomas, who appears at the end to be asking the other reporters in the room to step up to the plate: "where is everybody ... for God sakes"
At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
I'd like to know that, too!
9 comments:
Thank God for Helen Thomas - the woman is as old as sin (and a lot more fun) and she may be the last reporter with integrity in that room.
Regards,
Tengrain
The only reporter with a pair of balls in that room is an elderly woman. Pathetic.
Go Helen!
By the way, I think their out about lying is going to be that their lawyers ruled it legal and torture is clearly illegal, so they'll say, "See, no torture. We don't break ther law"
Crapulent nutbags.
Tengrain - so true!
Creepy - welcome ... Yes! And how sad for us!!
Omnipotent Poobah - maybe, but I don't buy it, and clearly neither does Helen!
BAC
"She may be the ONLY investigative journalist left in this country."
We still have Seymour Hersh....but yeah, the reporters today are few and far between...
sigh.
Drugmonkey - welcome, and yes ... "sigh" ...
BAC
I have seen this video a few times and must comment on it here.
Brava dear BAC for posting it- it must be stated and restated.
And as for Dana looking like she was going to puke, not to be unseemly, but I thought she might have been in need of a diaper as she shat herself I think!
This is so sad, thank goodness for Helen, but she is a lone voice crying out in the wilderness of the press room.
"You are denying in this room that we torture, that we have tortured?"
Twisting the words just a little, Perino could smugly deny that nobody has been tortured "in this room", the briefing room. But on second thought, it seems like a torturous session for her.
and don't forget Bill Moyers.
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