Cindy
Sheehan Goes After Pelosi...And Her Job 
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Notorious antiwar protestor - and now U.S.
Congressional candidate - Cindy Sheehan today called upon Nancy Pelosi to
respond to a story printed in the December 9th Washington Post which
claimed that the Speaker of the House was present in a 2002 meeting where
four members of Congress were given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas
detention sites and torture program.
According to the CIA, no
objections were raised by any member of Congress present in the meeting,
even though waterboarding, the interrogation technique profiled in the
meeting, is illegal under international and US military law.
Pelosi
has declined to comment on the story.
"My son was killed in part
because of a battle that resulted from the torture happening at Abu
Ghraib," said Sheehan. "If Nancy Pelosi had done the right thing in 2002
and taken a stance against the use of inhumane torture practices Casey
might still be alive, so would thousands more and think of those who could
have been saved from this horrific abuse."
"How she can claim that
she supports the troops when her actions and silence put them directly
into harms way?"
Sheehan, who this year declared her candidacy to
run for Pelosi's seat, reaffirmed her intentions to unseat the House
Speaker.
"This...makes it obvious why Nancy Pelosi 'took
impeachment off the table.' It is more urgent now than ever that she is
removed from office & I am even more determined to win her seat in
2008."
"Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress should be using
their Constitutional authority to
end all use of torture." said Sheehan, "Acquiring information through use of torture on prisoners of war
is as inhumane as it is unreliable."
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