Porter Goss, Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 to 2004,
says in the
Washington Post of the CIA briefings he shared with current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.
Speaker Pelosi is nothing if not expedient. Of the result of the details of interrogation being made public, Goss says:
The suggestion that we are safer now because information about interrogation techniques is in the public domain conjures up images of unicorns and fairy dust.
No doubt.
