Pelosi Knew -- Briefed on Waterboarding in '02

Politico Glenn Thrush ^ | 4/23/2009 | Glenn Thrush

[GVnana]

Pelosi briefed on waterboarding in '02 [UPDATED]

Nancy Pelosi denies knowing U.S. officials used waterboarding — but GOP operatives are pointing to a 2007 Washington Post story which describes an hour-long 2002 briefing in which Pelosi was told about enhanced interrogation techniques in graphic detail.

Two unnamed officials told the paper that Pelosi, then a member of the Democratic minority, didn't raise substantial objections.

Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen wrote:

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

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"In fairness, the environment was different then because we were closer to Sept. 11 and people were still in a panic," said one U.S. official present during the early briefings. "But there was no objecting, no hand-wringing. The attitude was, 'We don't care what you do to those guys as long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.'"

In his own society, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would be a dismembered corpse by now.

[Jeff Gordon]

In his own society, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would be a dismembered corpse by now.

...and Nancy Pelosi would be wearing a hijab.

[dfwgator]

...and Nancy Pelosi would be wearing a hijab.

You say that as if that would be a bad thing.

[americanophile]

[lacrew]

In much more important news, Levi fifteen minute o’ fame was on Larry King. Ignore Pelosi and concentrate on Levi, O’s puppy, MO’s garden, anything else.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

That doesn’t help much. It still frightens me.

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

yeah, and even though only her eyes were photoshopped in you can still somehow make out the joker grin underneath.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[KeyLargo]