Why I Love Helen Thomas

Check out the look on White House Press Secretary Dana Perino's face as she calls on Helen Thomas. Perino looks like she is about to throw up ... as she should.


This post is very after-the-fact, but I just watched the above video and HAD to put it up for a couple of reasons. First: I love Helen Thomas. She may be the ONLY investigative journalist left in this country. And second: This is yet another example of how blatantly this administration has lied to us.

Listen to the exchange, particularly this section near the end:

THOMAS: "You are denying in this room that we torture, that we have tortured?"

PERINO: "I am denying that."

One has to wonder how Perino can say that with a straight face considering the evidence.

... this is the first time sources have disclosed that a handful of the most senior advisers in the White House explicitly approved the details of the program. According to multiple sources, it was members of the Principals Committee that not only discussed specific plans and specific interrogation methods, but approved them. [...]

At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

I must agree with Ms. Thomas, who appears at the end to be asking the other reporters in the room to step up to the plate: "where is everybody ... for God sakes"

I'd like to know that, too!