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Reframing the Torture Debate

By Ethan Brown

Steve Benen just flagged a post from Greg Sargent who links to a clip of a Fox News correspondent admitting that criticism of Nancy Pelosi for claiming that she was misled by the CIA is a useful tool in reframing the torture debate:

“Instead of this debate being about national security, what is and isn’t torture, what the Bush administration should and shouldn’t have allowed and whether anybody in that administration should now be prosecuted, the Republicans are now able to frame this debate as to whether Nancy Pelosi is fit to continue as Speaker. So they are not about to let their foot off the gas in any way, shape, or form.”

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Sargent's post reminded me that I could only stomach a few moments of ABC's "This Week" yesterday because of what crawled across the screen during the "Roundtable":

"SPEAKER PELOSI VS. THE CIA"

Useful tool(s) indeed.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).