Porter Goss Stunned

At the "disturbing epidemic of amnesia" that is gripping some of his former House colleagues with regard to their knowledge of enhanced interrogation techniques:

Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as "waterboarding" were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.

Seems that the former CIA chief is most likely aiming his criticism at Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who continues to insist that she had no knowledge of the use of the interrogation techniques.