Posted on 12/05/2011 5:27:06 PM PST by presidio9
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi now says she is not sitting on a trove of opposition research on former House Speaker-turned-GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
In an interview conducted Friday and published Monday, Pelosi hinted that once the time is right she has some juicy stories to tell about her former colleague.
“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told Talking Points Memo. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him. Four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
But this afternoon, Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, suggested that her comments have been misconstrued beyond the leader’s intent. “Leader Pelosi was clearly referring to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware,” Hammill wrote in a statement.
That ethics report, which can be found here, examined allegations that Gingrich violated House rules by using his congressional staff to aide him on a college course he taught called ”Renewing American Civilization.”
In New York earlier this afternoon, Gingrich reacted to Pelosi’s comments by thanking her for an “early Christmas gift” and he asserted that Pelosi would be violating House rules if she disclosed anything from the ethics investigation beyond public record.
“I want to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard an early Christmas gift,” Gingrich told reporters. “If she is suggesting that she is going to use material that she developed while she was on the ethics committee, then that is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House and I hope that members would immediately file charges against her the second she does it.”
Gingrich, who has
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He's not perfect...but he's better than Obama.
Unlikely she’s got anything that hasn’t come out already. Unlike certain other Presidents I could name, anyone who votes for Newt Gingrich knows exactly what they’re going to get.
Well, he did say, “Bring it!” to Nancy. I will give Newt credit for calling her bluff.
A moonwalk even Michael Jackson would have been proud of...
The bit** blinked
We would ALL know Pelosi’s dirty financial dealings IF the MSM would do it’s JOB!!!
Game set match
That didn’t take long. Doubt Nancy really wants to open Pandora’s box.
Anybody with half a brain knew what they were getting with "The One who we've been waiting for." His left-of-the-Socialist-Party Congressional voting record was public record for all to see.
That's how the commies and the Nazis work. We need to lock the Pig Princess up until after the election. She has no right to release or even talk about that stuff. I don't think that what she is doing is even legal.
She may not be stitting on anything , except botox, but Axelrod will have everything.
Other than her brain of course.
Can you imagine being one of the three people who were locked in a closed room with this Runt (can’t use the C)for a year?
Talk about PTSD.
zactly. every single thing that is supposed to be “confidential” will be leaked. count on it.
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