(05-18-2009 11:05 AM)Caelligh Wrote:  Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. She wasn't concerned with the details at the time, but now she's concerned because voters are concerned and because torture is a criticism that has been directed at her political foes. She can't really claim to be anti-torture if she rubber-stamped it in the past, so she has opted to claim that she did not know it was going on.

Just like all those Democrats running for President in 2004 and 2008 trying to crawfish out of their vote for the Iraq War. "Bush lied" was the usual excuse... when the truth was in the post 9/11 political environment it was politically expedient to support anything to show that you were “fighting terrorism”