In December 2007 the Washington Post reported that leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees had been briefed in the fall of 2002 about waterboarding -- which simulates drowning -- and other techniques, and that no congressional leaders protested its use.

The new memo shows that intelligence officials were willing to share the information about waterboarding with only a sharply closed group of people. Three years after the initial Pelosi-Goss briefing, Bush officials still limited interrogation technique briefings to just the chairman and ranking member of the House and Senate intelligence committees, the so-called Gang of Four in the intelligence world.

A bipartisan collection of lawmakers have criticized the practice of limiting information to just the "Gang of Four", who were expressly forbidden from talking about the information from other colleagues, including fellow members of the intelligence committees.

The case of Nancy Pelosi vividly illustrates the key to the "torture" controversy. It is a partisan charade. And it is a charade of a particularly disgusting kind. The Democrats' torture charade is a case of low politics masquerading as high principle.

Yet their followers believe every lie out of Pelosi's pie-hole, it's taken as the gospel. The sick bunch pulled the same with the Iraq War, most all were for it until it became politically appealing to lie and say they were not for it. I've come to the conclusion the left will never, ever hold the morons in their own party libable for anything they say or do.