Since Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suggested that the CIA misled her in 2002
concerning its use of waterboarding, the Republican Party has been attempting to paint
her claims as outrageous.
Former CIA special agent and radio host Jack Rice finds the Republicans’ outrage
unconvincing. He told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Tuesday, “What’s extraordinary
here is the idea that if you would ever question the CIA, now all of a sudden somehow
it’s anti-American.”
“What’s extraordinary to me is that I’ve seen the Republicans do this over and over,”
Rice explained. “They will wrap something in the flag … and they will put a little lapel
pin on it that says ‘national security.’ And if you ask a question about it, somehow you’re
anti-American. And that’s what they’ve been trying to do to Nancy Pelosi for about
six years.”
