Posted on 05/10/2009 5:58:39 AM PDT by kellynla
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a leading critic of the Bush administration for authorizing the "torture" (waterboarding) of three captured al-Qaida leaders, despite the fact that former Vice President Dick Cheney says the interrogation methods yielded valuable information from men who had not previously been forthcoming, leading the terrorists to spill the beans on planned attacks that could have killed thousands more Americans.
Now it appears Ms. Pelosi knew all about the methods being used, and raised not a peep of objection. Unless she wants to argue she was dozing during CIA briefings.
Congressional leaders were briefed dozens of times on the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods on al-Qaida suspects, according to new information released by the Obama administration Thursday.
A chart compiled by the CIA shows that Ms. Pelosi, D-Calif., was briefed on Sept. 4, 2002, on the agency's interrogation of alleged al-Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah, and that the session covered "the particular (enhanced interrogation techniques) that had been employed."
As recently as a week ago, Ms. Pelosi contended, "We were not -- I repeat were not -- told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Ms. Pelosi, said Thursday that "the briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not been used."
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Obama wants Pelosi gone.
She must remind him of his mother.
Neither amnesia nor slumber, but blatant lies.
1)I had brain freeze from my morning botox injection.
2)I was on my cell telling Harry Reid to go blank himself.
3)I was french-kissing Rahm at the meeting.
She ran out the country this morning.... on her way to Iraq to get some good publicity.
I hope the press doesn’t let this drop.
I think it’s less Obama wanting her gone than Hillary.
You are probably correct.
(Hillary and Michelle?)
And here is where the MSM can do something for the American people while at the same time make some money.
Tomorrow’s headline in the NY Slimes should say: PELOSI LIED. ADMINISTRATION DEMANDS RESIGNATION.
I know if I saw that I would buy the paper. They could sell a few thousand extra papers that way. Their internet sites will go nuts.
And once they get a taste of it, who knows.
And I forget what goes first.
I agree with you. It is becoming apparent that she is no longer needed and Obama is throwing her under the bus. I suspect it has more to do with Rahm than Obama. Get her out of there now! If Biden leaves for an unexpected reason (I believe that will be next) we sure as hell don’t want Pelosi in line for the job. The real answer to the Pelosi downfall will come when a new speaker is named. You can be sure that person will be a bigger puppet for Obama and Rahm than even Pelosi has been.
4) I thought they were talking about “eats”, not EITs, so I went to lunch.
I think her bra strap is cutting off circulation to her brain.
"It’s not safe to use Botox to get rid of the wrinkles in face. Yes, popular anti-wrinkle treatment, Botox may Cause Brain Damage. It might be able to travel to the brain. Well, that’s what a new study out of the Italian National Research Council's Institute of Neuroscience says on Botox that is injected into the face."
Say it aint so.....
"So far no one has shown a direct effect of anesthetics to produce brain damage in people. However, there are some disturbing reports about post operative cognitive dysfunction after surgery, especially in the elderly. The Mayo group published data suggesting a link between age of onset of alzheimers and cumulative lifetime anesthetic exposure. Moreover, Monk's group has shown an association between depth of anesthesia by BIS and one year mortality. So what's up?"
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So, between Botox and plastic surgery, she has a pretty good insanity defense....
Personally, I don’t think she has a functional brain in that skull. She’s one of those people who have completely subjugated any ability to think rationally to pure emotion. As such, she can be easily manipulated, and seeks to manipulate the world around her; she sees no contradictions, since emotion, not facts or logic, drives her actions.
That’s how she can talk about being a grandmother of all those kids, as if it’s very important to her, while also supporting abortion and immediate post-natal infanticide. Or how she can sit in a briefing about interrogation techniques, and later claim the same thing she was briefed about is horrific torture. The emotional categories of each event are different; there is no contradiction.
Or she could be just flat-out lying!!!
On Sept. 4, 2002, less than a year after 9/11, the CIA briefed Rep. Porter Goss, then House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Mrs. Pelosi, then the committee’s ranking Democrat, on EITs including waterboarding. They were the first members of Congress to be informed.
So, who was the director of the CIA from 9/11 to 2004?
George J. Tenet 1997–2004 was the Director of CIA.
Tenet was appointed by President Clinton and approved by Congress. Tenet then became the CIA director in August of 1997.
So, Pelosi is now saying that George Tenet lied to her or ordered his congressional briefers to lie to Nancy.
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