Below I have expanded the CIA’s list of congressional members who were informed of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (a.k.a Torture) before the information became general, public knowledge. I have amended it to include the party affiliation and home state of every individual. This list has not been confirmed by third party information as the Obama Administration has yet to order the release of more detailed, classified information on the briefings. Since the information released thus far has been very partisan in nature, I think it is only fair that this information, which reveals the extent of the hypocrisy and incompetence in congress, be used as credible information until President Obama sees fit to make the whole picture public.
Democrats
Nancy Pelosi – Speaker of the House, Representative from California (D)
Bob Graham – Senator from Florida (D)
John Rockefeller – Senator from West Virginia (D)
Jane Harman – Representative from California (D)
Evan Bayh – Senator from Indiana (D)
Richard J. Durbin – Senator from Illinois (D)
John Edwards – Senator from North Carolina (D)
Dianne Feinstein – Senator from California (D)
Carl Levin – Senator from Michigan (D)
Barbara A. Mikulski – Senator from Maryland (D)
Russ Feingold – Senator from Wisconsin (D)
Silvestre Reyes – Representative from Texas (D)
Bill Nelson – Senator from Florida (D)
Ron Wyden – Senator from Oregon (D)
Sheldon Whitehouse – Senator from Rhode Island (D)
John Murtha – Representative from Pennsylvania (D)
Anna Eshoo – Representative from California (D)
Janice Schakowsky – Representative from Illinois (D)
Dutch Ruppersberger – Representative from Maryland (D)
James Langevin – Representative from Rhode Island (D)
Robert Cramer – Representative from Alabama (D)
Leonard Boswell – Representative from Iowa (D)
Patrick Murphy – Representative from Pennsylvania (D)
Rush Holt – Representative from New Jersey (D)
Republicans
Porter Gross – Former Director of Central Intelligence (R)
Richard Shelby – Senator from Alabama (R)
Pat Roberts – Senator from Kansas, Former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (R)
Porter Gross- Director of Central Intelligence, Representative from Florida (R)
Peter Hoekstra – Representative from Michigan (R)
Ted Stevens – Senator from Alaska (R)
Thad Cochran – Senator from Mississippi (R)
John McCain – Senator from Arizona (R)
Bill Frist – Senator from Tennessee (R)
Duncan Hunter – Representative from California (R)
Christoper S. Bond – Senator from Missouri (R)
Saxby Chambliss – Senator from Georgia (R)
Mike DeWine – Senator from Ohio (R)
Chuck Hegel – Senator from Nebraska (R)
Orin G. Hatch – Senator from Utah (R)
Trent Lott – Senator from Mississippi (R)
Olympia Snowe – Senator from Maine (R)
John W. Warner – Senator from Virginia (R)
Bill Young – Representative from Florida (R)
Orrin Hatch – Senator from Utah (R)
Richard Burr – Senator from North Carolina (R)
Chuck Hagel – Senator from Nebraska (R)
Mike J. Rogers – Representative from Michigan (R)
Darrell Issa -Representative from California (R)
Elton Gallegly – Representative from California (R)
Mac Thornberry – Representative from Texas (R)
Terry Everett - Representative from Alabama (R)
John McHugh – Representative from New York (R)
Todd Tiahrt – Representative from Kansas (R)
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2 Comments, Comment or Ping
William Zaffer
I trust the CIA as much as a trust a congressional person that takes campaign money from corporations that are part of the industrial complex. Like the fossil fuel industry, will do anything to protect their money interests versus our democracy that has been stolen. We have more important things to deal with than these stupid ideology battles of politics. The reason we need public financing to take back our country and do what is right versus who give me money to keep their office.
May 17th, 2009
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Like you, I have trouble taking anything that is said these days at face value. The best we can do is look at the available evidence on both sides and try to make an informed conclusion. I don’t want to take the list at face value, but, since both sides are playing games with the truth, I have to weigh the CIA’s evidence (if it can really be called such without more documents to back it up) against Pelosi & Co’s. A big part of our problem is the two party establishment we have. We are forced to define ourselves so narrowly and offered so little choice. To compound the problem, the establishment has near total control of the educational system from kindergarten and up. It’s hard to influence people’s opinions when they have been so excellently conditioned to avoid independent thought and to ridicule viewpoints that are either “fringe” or on the “other” side of the two party fulcrum.
May 17th, 2009
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