Pelosi in public dispute with CIA over interrogation

Reuters ^ | 14 May 2009 18:30:31 GMT | Susan Cornwell and Steve Holland

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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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Yeah, they're all filled with the same garbage, just different faces, lol. Had to slenderize the body for Nancy.

I've been searching out old gifs and redoing some lately.

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Slenderize -

LOL!

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You’ve got to remember that that gif was originally HILLARY!

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You’ll give all the guys a thrill.

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Not exactly Pelosi .com

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I would assume that if a meeting was held in 2002, that minutes of that meeting were kept. To find out the truth, someone has to dig up those minutes. If they can even find a Democrat alluding to a statement such as “are we doing enough”, that would show them as being complicit.

I would then assume that the Dem’s would become strangely silent on the subject.

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Thanks for the ping!

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Good evening, Ma'am.

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Thanks! Ever since I learned to cut-n-paste, I’ve managed to impede many a serious discussion. Hope we didn’t mess up your thread too badly today.

FRegards,
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Thanks.

...but maybe more 'beautiful' would be to see her lose her job, for lying.

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She shall.

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"Hope springs eternal from the human breast..."

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Absolutely.

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Man, she is ghastly.

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You are no doubt correct on both your points: a) security briefings show continued threat of terrorist attacks; b) Pelosi's public displays bring heat on the Left.

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No Da'Plane for you Pelosi.

House Speaker Reject will be your legacy.

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The Left can Bash the right, but they are lost covering for each other.
Lost? Yea, they cannot bash each other or POTUS.
They are in charge.

The RAT's cannot throw lions into a lions den to be eaten, they'll eat
their own handlers "money" first before they fall.
Count on it.