The problem with the political forum is that when there is a very important issue to discuss we quickly regress into tossing barbs at each other and slip away from the topic of the thread. No matter which side of the political bedpost you hang your robe, if you saw Pelosi in action yesterday you had to feel troubled. The 3rd highest ranking member of our political system essentially has:

a) been caught lying

b) projected blame onto the entire CIA and called them liars.

c) changed her story at least 3 times in a feeble attempt to cover her lies

d) held a press conference, totally unprepared, mixed up her notes and embarrassed herself in front of the world to the degreee that you had to pity her

It doesn't matter where you stand politically.... the entire world is watching this fiasco.... what must they be thinking? That was the purpose of the original post. President Obama now has to decide how to deal with this issue and with The Speaker. I was hoping there would be some discussion on what people thought about how this mess would unfold. Remember, the whole thing started because Pelosi (and others) wanted to boil in oil those responsible for waterboarding and other interrogation techniques that she claimed (wrongly) she did not know were occuring. It is 100% certain by the info presented to date that she knew waterboarding was occurring by Jan 03 at the latest and Sept 02 very likely yet she never raised an iota of protest, challenge or alarm then. Now, she thought she'd make political hay out of this issue in 2009 and it has turned around and bitten her right in the behind.