Greg Sargent details a crucial point about the on-going Bizarro World coverage of the torture 'debate.' (i.e. The Beltway's latest/favorite process gotcha story.) And how the long-forgotten issue of why the Bush administration okayed the use of torture has morphed into a question about the credibility of Democrats.
Writes Sargent:
Multiple news accounts this morning report that [Nancy] Pelosi's credibility is in question after yesterday's press conference, in which she accused the CIA of lying about what they told members of Congress about the agency's use of torture. This theme was sounded by MSNBC, WaPo's Dan Balz, the New York Times write-up, and many others.
That's as it should be. But I challenge you to find a news account that stated with equal prominence that the CIA's credibility is also in question.