Posted on 05/14/2009 12:50:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday got into a public dispute with the CIA over what she knew about harsh interrogation techniques in 2002 in the latest twist in a Washington political firestorm.
The troubles of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened to divert Democrats from President Barack Obama's economic agenda when many Americans would like to put Bush-era controversies behind them.
She has been caught up in a debate over what she knew about the techniques when they were being used and why she did not speak out to oppose them if she knew about them.
Pelosi accused her critics of drawing attention to what she might have known about the interrogation techniques as a tactic to avert attention from "those who conceived, developed and implemented these policies."
The debate over interrogation methods has become a source of tension as liberals press Obama for the prosecution of Bush-era officials and Republicans insist the techniques produced intelligence that helped avert Sept. 11-style attacks.
The CIA last week contradicted Pelosi, saying she had been told about the use of methods such as waterboarding, or simulated drowning, in a September 2002 briefing.
The spy agency had issued a chart saying Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Porter Goss, the committee chairman at the time, were given "a description of the particular EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) that had been employed."
A besieged Pelosi held a news conference to give her side of the story, saying she was briefed that the Bush administration had legal opinions that concluded the use of these procedures were legal.
"The only mention of waterboarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed," she said.
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I love good gaphics in a thread....
She is also making too many waves over the whole terrorist/torture thing. Zer0 has seen the future and it says “don’t trash the military it’s hell on the polls.”
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In other words - It Is What It Is.
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
“Good Advise.”
It has worked well for me in my personal and business life the past 50 years of my 70 years. It took me a couple of decades to learn his wisdom.
Thanks Granddad.
“She is also making too many waves over the whole terrorist/torture thing. Zer0 has seen the future and it says “don’t trash the military it’s hell on the polls.”
It seems that Obama and Biden have had some strong doses of reality re terrorism this year re their special intel briefings. That reality and the polls have told them to back off re trashing the military and our intel people.
I would like to be an invisible man, when Obama and Rhombo are going over Pelosi’s polls and what focus groups feel about her mouth in this situation.
You are welcome, Grand Daughter.
When it was just Bush and Cheney: Torture
When it was possible Pelosi may have lied: "Harsh interrogation"
When its obvious Pelosi lied: "interrogation methods"
Nice job of recapping the media's reaction. After listening to Queen Nancy today, I had to laugh at the artful dodging she did when the press began to zero in, and how relieved she was when the subject was changed to health care, but how chagrined she became when she was dragged back into her defense when one reporter asked if she was calling the CIA liars.
Not NEARLY as good as YOURS! LOL!
Have a great time.
You found a great wrinkly photo of Pelosi, I hadn’t seen that one.
My gif is an old one of Hillary that I put Nancy’s head on and made thinner. You know I love animation but I note that most of the high praise comments are usually about, what I call, ‘flat’ graphics.
You have made some fantastic animation yourself, I like your little ‘Seadog’, among others.
Thanks for the ping! I love it. :o) The bigger the lie, the more she moves her hands around and the more she blinks. She almost gave herself a black eye from waving those little hands around. LOL I’d say she has a credibility problem. The “truth” squad might not be the way she wants to go.
So now Americans want Bush era controversies behind them?? Apparently one of theirs is in trouble.
Pray for America
If this was a Republican they would be run out of town.
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The lib heads are interchangeable!
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