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Bad morning for Pelosi
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Posted on 05/13/2009 7:18:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bad morning for Pelosi @ 9:53 am by Eric Zimmermann
Two new developments in the "what did Pelosi know about waterboarding" series spell trouble for the Speaker.
First, CNN reports that an aide told Pelosi in February 2003 that waterboarding had been used on Abu Zubaydah. This contradicts Pelosi's assertion that she only knew about the legal rationale for waterboarding, not that it had been used.
Sheehy attended a briefing in which waterboarding was discussed in February 2003, with Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, who took over Pelosi's spot as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
This source says Pelosi didn't object when she learned that waterboarding was being used because she had not been personally briefed about it only her aide had been told.
This looks pretty bad for Pelosi, as though she avoided any "personal briefing" to maintain deniability.
Second, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is now reluctantly admitting that Congressional hearings on the matter should include questions about what Pelosi knew.
The first of those hearings is today, a Senate Judiciary Committee that starts in, oh, about 5 minutes. The witness lineup today means the Pelosi issue probably won't take center stage, but that might change with future hearings.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 200302; 200905; abuzubaidah; abuzubayda; abuzubaydah; bleedingheartattack; democrats; eit; eits; harman; janeharman; pelosi; waterboarding; zawahiri; zubaidah; zubaydah
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Made my day....
To: Sub-Driver
When is it ever a good morning to have a Pelosi?
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:19:37 AM PDT
by
FourPeas
(somewhere in Kenya, a village idiot is missing his sidekick)
To: Sub-Driver
Such a disgusting disgrace. A raving radical liberal “progressive” (Marxist) DemoRat. They are the same.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:22:55 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:24:12 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: FourPeas
“When is it ever a good morning to have a Pelosi?”
I take a Pelosi every morning, then I shave and shower.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:24:22 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Kool aid comes in two new flavors: Hope and Change.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:24:47 AM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
(Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
To: FourPeas
When you have difficult Pelosi, try fiber.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:25:35 AM PDT
by
Reagan69
(No Representation without Taxation !)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
One more face lift and she’ll have an orgasm everytime she sneezes.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:26:09 AM PDT
by
nufsed
(Release the birth certificate, school and passport records.)
To: Sub-Driver
What makes me happy is this adds just that much more stress to an already physically & mentally tortured body and “mind”!
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:26:57 AM PDT
by
albie
To: nufsed
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:28:13 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(No teleprompters were harmed in the creation of this post.)
To: Sub-Driver
Two new developments in the "what did Pelosi know about waterboarding" series spell trouble for the SpeakerLet me be the first to say it....absolutely NOTHING will come of this. She will suffer no ill effects, IMHO.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:28:29 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: nufsed
One more face lift and shell have an orgasm everytime she sneezes. She's already sporting a goatee...
13
posted on
05/13/2009 7:28:34 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
To: Sub-Driver
The latest
meme being thrown out for public consumption is that Bush broke the law because he failed to disclose the use of waterboarding to Democrats until six months after it was first deployed in 2002 on Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. Even if that doesn't fly, the Dems...at least the ones at DU...indicate that they are more than willing to throw Pelosi under the bus to get Bush and Cheney.
To: Sub-Driver
Second, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is now reluctantly admitting that Congressional hearings on the matter should include questions about what Pelosi knew. The real question is whether or not they will do anything about the answers to the questions.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:29:28 AM PDT
by
Mind Freed
("Every man has the right to be a fool 5 minutes a day. Wisdom is not exceeding the limit.")
To: Puppage
Waterboarding isn’t torture, period! So this shouldn’t even be worth having hearings over in the first place.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:30:00 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: MortMan
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:30:13 AM PDT
by
nufsed
(Release the birth certificate, school and passport records.)
To: Sub-Driver
LOL - just saw Pelosi standing next to O’Bama in a health care press briefing. She was blinking and nodding uncontrollably.
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:30:56 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
"Hoyer smells blood."Sure seems that way. That the press is on it also suggests that Hoyer has supporters in the WH--moving to change Speakers? Nancy is probably not a lot of fun to be around these days. ;^)
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:30:59 AM PDT
by
eureka!
(Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
To: Sub-Driver
A bad morning for Pelosi means a good morning for the Republic...
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posted on
05/13/2009 7:31:01 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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