Posted on 05/08/2009 1:04:29 PM PDT by SmithL
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, was playing defense again today on what she knew, and when she knew it, about torture following a document leaked to the Senate Intelligence Committee from CIA Director and fellow Californian Leon Panetta. The unclassified document shows that Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was briefed Sept. 4, 2002 on "enhanced interrogation techniques" used on terror suspect Abu Zubaydah.
Specifically, the document said Pelosi and her GOP counterpart, Rep. Porter Goss, attended a briefing with two staff "on EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background authorities, and a description of the particular EITs that had been employed."
The key words are "had been employed."
Pelosi has maintained that she was only told that the Bush administration had legal opinions justifying the use of waterboarding, or simulated drowning, and other harsh techniques, not that they were being used. That refers to the "background authorities." She has also vigorously maintained that she was bound to secrecy. She has also said the briefings were intended only to inform Congress, and were not a forum for suggestions from Congress. And she says today that the report comes from the recollections of CIA staff at the briefing and may not be accurate.
The document does confirm that she was only briefed once. However, Republicans are quick to point out that Pelosi seems to be digging in on a point where she appears vulnerable. Several people were at the briefing, and their notes are quite likely to be leaked at some point.
Pelosi is in Qatar today on a trip through the Middle East.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Nancy Pelosi is deeply disturbed.
So only her hairdresser knows?
Panetta and Goss leaked the memo?
POW!!!
In other words: Who are you going to believe, me or those lying POS's in Bush's CIA, who screwed this whole thing up in the first place???????
Right. These people with their selective memories and selective ethics are the most reprobate people I’ve seen in many a year.
Pelosi is a good example of the total lack of quality, ethics, veracity, competency, and Americanism that has now taken over the American government.
Pray for some sanity to surface in the 2010 midterms that allow America to take its government back from radical socialist crooks.
I give her a “D”. I'd flunk her, but she keeps getting re-elected.
Waterboard her to get to the truth.
So, now it's the CIA that's lying?
How can such a stupid woman have risen to Speaker?
Pelosi responds
No, Pelosi covers her @ss with both hands
I did not have sex with that waterboard . . . er . . .
Love to see the story get real legs.
Waterboard the skank!......
RESIGN nancy NOW!
This is far from being finished.
More will be exposed on what she knew contrary to her continued denials.
Mess with the CIA and be assured, there are those within that DO NOT pander to Pelosi, Reed, or Team Obama. Information will continue to be leaked as they play with the issue of whether or not to persecute those who were only doing their jobs. The day of retribution is coming and I for one, look forward to it.
It depends on what your definition of “is” is...
It's just that her job is so far above her pay grade (which actually shouldn't include anything more powerful than a mop) that she lives in a state of constant reflexive paranoia.
Which is just peachy for the job of Speaker of the House and third in line to the presidency, doncha think?
Another great liberal role model for women.
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