Bring On the Truth Commission

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) held a torturous press conference today to address charges that she raised no objections when informed in 2002 and 2003 about the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorist detainees. Pelosi was out of the country last week, so perhaps she can be forgiven for not realizing that the narrative on this story had been | Read More »

    Hoyer: Investigate Pelosi, Too

    It is a very open secret in Democratic circles that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) do not have the best of relationships. The pair were rivals for the speaker’s gavel after the Democrats took control of the House in 2006. Later, Pelosi backed the notoriously corrupt Jack Murtha (D-PA) for Majority Leader against Hoyer. Tensions have simmered beneath | Read More »