Pelosi encubre la tortura. LaRouche: Pelosi no tiene autoridad moral

December 9, 2007 (LPAC)--In 2002, Nancy Pelosi, as the ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee was briefed on CIA torture techniques, including water-boarding, but made no objection to the techniques. In contrast to Pelosi, Jane Harman, who replaced Pelosi as the committee's top Democrat in Jan. 2003, filed a classified letter in Feb. 2003 in official protest of the program. When Pelosi became Speaker of the House in 2006, Harman was quickly given the boot by Pelosi.

Lyndon LaRouche stated in response to the exposure of these facts by the Washington Post that, "What Nancy Pelosi did is typical of a woman controlled by the fascist Felix Rohatyn, who seems to have intimidated a number of other people like Barney Frank." LaRouche continued that, "Pelosi no longer has any credibility as leader of the House. She has no moral authority. She has thrown it all away by being a mere patsy for Felix Rohatyn, who was associated with the fascist regime of Augusto Pinochet in Chile." As LaRouche concluded: "Buddy, that is a fact."

Under Operation Condor, Pinochet's regime committed torture, assassinations, and renditions throughout Ibero America, and assassinations in Europe and in the United States itself. Operation Condor was advised by Nazi war criminals like Walter Rauff, the former Nazi SS officer whose mobile gas vans were used to kill 250,000 Jews. Rauff had escaped to Chile after World War II on the Nazi ratline.

According to the Washington Post account, in September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a look at the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques," including water-boarding. "For more than an hour, the bipartisan group was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk." Prior to 2005, when word of the practice of water-boarding began to leak out in the press the key legislators on the House and Senate Intelligence committees had about 30 private briefings. Pelosi has declined to comment on her reaction to the classified briefings.