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PELOSI IN A PICKLE (Panetta: "long tradition of making political hay out of CIA business")
NY POST ^ | 5/16/09 | EDITORIAL

Posted on 05/16/2009 6:35:59 AM PDT by Liz

Washington has never seen anything like Speaker Pelosi's ever-shifting tales of what she'd been told. Even Nixon didn't have this much trouble explaining what he knew and when he knew it.......if Pelosi knew waterboarding -- which she now sanctimoniously describes as illegal "torture" -- was on the CIA's list of Gitmo practices, why didn't she raise a ruckus at the time? ...... she says, she focused on "chang[ing] the leadership in Congress and the White House. That was my job." But now she seems to want anyone in the Bush admin who even uttered the word locked up. CIA Director Panetta said: "It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress......CIA officers briefed truthfully on 'the enhanced techniques that had been employed.' "

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KEYWORDS: panetta; pelosi
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1 posted on 05/16/2009 6:35:59 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

“IS” a pickle


2 posted on 05/16/2009 6:37:01 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Liz

She tried to correct it by blaming Bush. Let’s see how that works.


3 posted on 05/16/2009 6:38:08 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Liz

4 posted on 05/16/2009 6:38:45 AM PDT by Zakeet (Thou Shalt Not Steal -- Unless thou art the government)
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To: Liz
"she says, she focused on "chang[ing] the leadership in Congress and the White House. That was my job.""

Good Grief! I thought her job was to do the best for the United States! She's so shallow and dim.

5 posted on 05/16/2009 6:39:50 AM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor (There are permanent moral truths.)
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To: xcamel

Right on and perhaps a Pickled Skunk, just for fun.


6 posted on 05/16/2009 6:40:45 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Zer0 and Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: Liz

I found it interesting how many of the “major” dailies managed to frame the issue as “Republicans land a rare blow on Pelosi” or “GOP could use Pelosi torture woes against Obama”. The objectivity of our “free press” is breathtaking.


7 posted on 05/16/2009 6:43:56 AM PDT by chickadee
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To: Liz
["Even Richard Nixon didn't have this much trouble explaining what he knew and when he knew it."]

That had to leave a mark!

EVEYONE should call their useless Congress critter and DEMAND that this foolish hag RESIGN AT ONCE. Committing Seppuku would be helpful but not necessary.

8 posted on 05/16/2009 6:45:28 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: Liz
My Gawd, I just got hit in the head by something dropped by a pig that flew by.
Leon Panetta did something I find admirable.
9 posted on 05/16/2009 6:46:35 AM PDT by Tupelo
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To: Liz

Pelosi is in trouble because she made an utterly idiotic lie. She made an utterly idiotic lie because she lives in a universe that ALLOWS her and her leftist ilk to play with the truth WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE. The natrual result of such conditions is unfolding before our eyes.

Now, wait’ll you see what complications and results these conditions produce WHEN Obozo is ensnared.


10 posted on 05/16/2009 6:47:09 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Tupelo

Shockeroo for sure.


11 posted on 05/16/2009 6:47:55 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: Zakeet

All the plastic surgery is putting too much pressure on her brain and choking her thought process.


12 posted on 05/16/2009 6:48:00 AM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: Liz

May she go down in Liberal flames and may she only be the first of many. The voters are pissed and the clueless wish to ignore the Tea Parties.


13 posted on 05/16/2009 6:49:32 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham; chickadee; TalBlack; Zakeet; Freedom Dignity n Honor; b4its2late
The buzz is John Boehner and Lindsey Graham approached Nancy behind the scenes and said: "It's time Nancy. We gotta get Bush. We are all in this together. You oughta have a press conference to tell the world how the CIA lied to you." And Nancy said, " Gee, thanks, that's a great idea."

ROTFL.

Let's not forget how Pelosi got herself into this mess. DEMOCRATS were hot to "get Bush" ...... salivating to nail 'im with lawsuits. Then people started asking: What did Congress know? Weren't intelligence commitees briefed? Et voila. Pelosi was ranking member of the House Intel Committe at that time.

14 posted on 05/16/2009 6:50:57 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: Liz
The Speaker, my friend
is twisting in the wind
The Speaker is twisting
in the wind...

With apologies to Peter, Paul and Mary

15 posted on 05/16/2009 6:52:46 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (President Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: Tupelo

What Panetta did was not that remarkable. Remember he works for the POTUS so he knows which side of the bread gets buttered

Pelosi is an idiot to take on the CIA even with the political hack Panetta as director

There is way more stuff under the surface here which Joe Public is not privy to that keeps this story having legs


16 posted on 05/16/2009 6:53:28 AM PDT by Popman
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To: ExTexasRedhead; Grampa Dave; Just mythoughts
May she go down in Liberal flames and may she only be the first of many....

A-m-e-n.

One fatal Dem predeliction is that they act like they are invisible...... The voters are pi**ed..... and they are paying very close attention.

17 posted on 05/16/2009 6:54:46 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: Tupelo

Panetta has his own turf to protect and Pelosi apparently forgot the RATS are now in control. ...hence the “I meant Bush not the CIA” inner tube.


18 posted on 05/16/2009 6:55:45 AM PDT by rod1
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To: Liz

The Chickens are coming home to Roost. This may cost her a $B in lost Graft.

Pray for America


19 posted on 05/16/2009 6:56:19 AM PDT by bray (SarDate.2012)
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To: chainsaw

“All the plastic surgery is putting too much pressure on her brain and choking her thought process.”

Botoxheimer’s!


20 posted on 05/16/2009 6:56:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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