Having railed against President Bush’s terror-suspect interrogation policies, the Democrat leadership in the USA is struggling to explain why at one point they quietly endorsed them.

Read about this hopeless performance by N Pelosi.

Or even better watch it – the nervous swallowing is most instructive, as is the babbling once the confident opening statement ends.

What a superb line: I’ll say it again: Nancy Pelosi’s lies are so transparent birds are slamming into them. Nancy Pelosi kills birds.