What's Been and What's Ben

Pelosi is acting strange about waterboarding. There are three positibilities.

1. She was lied to by the CIA and didn’t know stuff was actually going on until recently.
2. She knew about it and didn’t raise a fuss because she had other battles to fight and probably didn’t know the applications. This was a moral failing of hers because waterboarding is torture because that is what we would call it if some GIs were waterboarded.
3. The third way. This way doesn’t care about what she knew. She wants to be investigated because it leaves open a door to allows Bush administration figures to be investigated. She may fall on her sword, but it holds a gun to the republicans for mutually assured destruction. Democrats want everybody to remember in 2010 and 2012 that the republicans are amoral and the small party of those who love Rush (Limbaugh) and Dick (Cheney).

So this is my theory. Democrats lure republicans into investigating what they know so the reverse situation can happen on a principle of fairness.