The Real Reason The Dems Will Not Go After Torturers

Because they knew and that makes them responsible. They knew, they were briefed, and they didn't object. They are criminally responsible, and an honest, independent investigation would probably end up indicting half (probably a bit of exaggeration) of the US government.

From ABC news:

The report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, appears to contradict Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of waterboarding or other special interrogation tactics. Instead, she has said, she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques.

I like some democrats. Kucinich is ok. But unfortunately the good ones aren't in charge. The ones that have allowed and will continue to allow war criminals to get away without punishment, thus setting a horribly dangerous precedent, and allowing them to walk freely among the rest of us.

A responsible representative of the people would have made this knowledge public instead of hiding it. She should have used it to put forth motions of an investigation at the time. It probably would have lead to an impeachment as it should have. Unfortunately, Pelosi wasn't responsible and now she's an accessory to a war crime.

On others who knew:

The report also details dozens of other meetings with members of Congress -- though not with Pelosi present -- where the use of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques was described.

The Senate intelligence committee’s chairman and ranking member, Bob Graham and Richard Shelby, were given a briefing similar to the one with Pelosi and Goss on Sept. 27, 2002, according to the report.

On Feb. 4, 2003, a briefing on “enhanced interrogation techniques” for Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., revealed that interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri were taped.

In addition, that briefing “described in considerable details” the techniques used, including “how the water board was used.”

A similar briefing the following day included Goss and Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who by that time had become the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, when Pelosi moved on to become minority leader.