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Pelosi in public dispute with CIA over interrogation
Reuters ^ | 14 May 2009 18:30:31 GMT | Susan Cornwell and Steve Holland

Posted on 05/14/2009 12:50:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday got into a public dispute with the CIA over what she knew about harsh interrogation techniques in 2002 in the latest twist in a Washington political firestorm.

The troubles of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened to divert Democrats from President Barack Obama's economic agenda when many Americans would like to put Bush-era controversies behind them.

She has been caught up in a debate over what she knew about the techniques when they were being used and why she did not speak out to oppose them if she knew about them.

Pelosi accused her critics of drawing attention to what she might have known about the interrogation techniques as a tactic to avert attention from "those who conceived, developed and implemented these policies."

The debate over interrogation methods has become a source of tension as liberals press Obama for the prosecution of Bush-era officials and Republicans insist the techniques produced intelligence that helped avert Sept. 11-style attacks.

The CIA last week contradicted Pelosi, saying she had been told about the use of methods such as waterboarding, or simulated drowning, in a September 2002 briefing.

The spy agency had issued a chart saying Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Porter Goss, the committee chairman at the time, were given "a description of the particular EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) that had been employed."

A besieged Pelosi held a news conference to give her side of the story, saying she was briefed that the Bush administration had legal opinions that concluded the use of these procedures were legal.

"The only mention of waterboarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhocia; cia; ciainterrogation; ciainterrogationmemo; interrogation; peloshitosis; pelosi
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To: Seadog Bytes; potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo

I love good gaphics in a thread....


41 posted on 05/14/2009 1:42:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Grampa Dave

She is also making too many waves over the whole terrorist/torture thing. Zer0 has seen the future and it says “don’t trash the military it’s hell on the polls.”


42 posted on 05/14/2009 1:42:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Seadog Bytes

;->


43 posted on 05/14/2009 1:45:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"The language in the chart -- 'a description of the particular EITs that had been employed' -- is true to the language in the agency's records."

In other words - It Is What It Is.

44 posted on 05/14/2009 1:46:13 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: Seadog Bytes

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.


45 posted on 05/14/2009 1:46:36 PM PDT by Gator113 (Weak-coward-racist-white hating-lying-traitor= Surrender Monkey in Chief-B. Hussein Obama...)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Good Advise.”

It has worked well for me in my personal and business life the past 50 years of my 70 years. It took me a couple of decades to learn his wisdom.


46 posted on 05/14/2009 1:49:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: Grampa Dave
........as Grand Dad used to say, “Never interfere with an enemy who is trying to hang him/herself. Back up and get a comfortable seat to watch and enjoy their self destruction!”...........

Thanks Granddad.

48 posted on 05/14/2009 1:51:40 PM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: TigersEye; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Liz; BOBTHENAILER; PhilDragoo

“She is also making too many waves over the whole terrorist/torture thing. Zer0 has seen the future and it says “don’t trash the military it’s hell on the polls.”

It seems that Obama and Biden have had some strong doses of reality re terrorism this year re their special intel briefings. That reality and the polls have told them to back off re trashing the military and our intel people.

I would like to be an invisible man, when Obama and Rhombo are going over Pelosi’s polls and what focus groups feel about her mouth in this situation.


49 posted on 05/14/2009 1:54:11 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: Liz

You are welcome, Grand Daughter.


50 posted on 05/14/2009 1:54:52 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: Raycpa
Evolution of the issue as a Rat gets snagged:

When it was just Bush and Cheney: Torture

When it was possible Pelosi may have lied: "Harsh interrogation"

When its obvious Pelosi lied: "interrogation methods"

Nice job of recapping the media's reaction. After listening to Queen Nancy today, I had to laugh at the artful dodging she did when the press began to zero in, and how relieved she was when the subject was changed to health care, but how chagrined she became when she was dragged back into her defense when one reporter asked if she was calling the CIA liars.

51 posted on 05/14/2009 2:27:28 PM PDT by FLCowboy, (If the Iraq war was so wrong, why is the Afghanistan war so right??)
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To: Seadog Bytes; devolve; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Lol, great image of Nancy there Seadog!

 


52 posted on 05/14/2009 2:34:50 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

Not NEARLY as good as YOURS!   LOL!


53 posted on 05/14/2009 2:42:15 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: Grampa Dave; Liz
Got to bug out ...getting ready for my Granddaughters HS Graduation Banquet..
54 posted on 05/14/2009 2:47:51 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Have a great time.


55 posted on 05/14/2009 2:58:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: Seadog Bytes

You found a great wrinkly photo of Pelosi, I hadn’t seen that one.

My gif is an old one of Hillary that I put Nancy’s head on and made thinner. You know I love animation but I note that most of the high praise comments are usually about, what I call, ‘flat’ graphics.

You have made some fantastic animation yourself, I like your little ‘Seadog’, among others.


56 posted on 05/14/2009 3:00:51 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Seadog Bytes

Thanks for the ping! I love it. :o) The bigger the lie, the more she moves her hands around and the more she blinks. She almost gave herself a black eye from waving those little hands around. LOL I’d say she has a credibility problem. The “truth” squad might not be the way she wants to go.


57 posted on 05/14/2009 3:29:20 PM PDT by NRA2BFree
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

So now Americans want Bush era controversies behind them?? Apparently one of theirs is in trouble.

Pray for America


58 posted on 05/14/2009 3:33:50 PM PDT by bray (SarDate.2012)
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I believe Ms. Peloaie should be forced to step down from the Leadership position. A lier can not be trusted, this country has more than enough problems than putting up with another person who we can not trust or BELIEVE. She has so many different stories we can almost chose which ever one we want to believe... I chose none of them, so RESIGN, THE SOONER THE BETTER.

If this was a Republican they would be run out of town.

59 posted on 05/14/2009 4:17:12 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: potlatch

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The lib heads are interchangeable!


60 posted on 05/14/2009 4:40:16 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hey kids! Let*s elect a confessed cokehead! . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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