Panetta Defends CIA Briefing

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Intelligence Trail

What Pelosi said she knew

* August 2002: Justice Department authorizes waterboarding and other 'enhanced interrogation' techniques (EITs). The CIA uses the technique. * September 2002: Nancy Pelosi, ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, is briefed on the techniques. * February 2003: A Pelosi aide attends a briefing with the new ranking member on the committee, Jane Harman. Pelosi later says that she learns after this meeting that the techniques have already been used, and that she 'concurred' with Harman's letter to the CIA protesting the decision to use them. * December 2007: A news report quotes two officials who say Pelosi was briefed on waterboarding and raised no objections. Pelosi issues a statement confirming she was briefed on one occasion in the fall of 2002 'on interrogation techniques the administration was considering using in the future.' * April 23, 2009: After the Obama administration releases four memos approving the use of waterboarding, Pelosi says that in September 2002, 'We were not …told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used.' * May 5, 2009: Intelligence officials send lawmakers a list of 40 congressional briefings on EITs, saying lawmakers 'will have to determine whether this information is an accurate summary of what actually happened.' The list says Pelosi was told that some EITs had been employed, but doesn't specify waterboarding. * May 8, 2009: Pelosi repeats that she was briefed on techniques that would be used in the future. * May 14, 2009: Pelosi says she wasn't told in September 2002 that waterboarding was being used, and says 'the CIA was misleading Congress.'

[Evil Slayer]

Pesky Pelosi is TOAST!!!

[kaehurowing]

So when is the indictment for war crimes coming out?

[Oldexpat]

Pelosi isn’t going anywhere. She has the power to stay in office and there isn’t anyone who will challenge her.
Zero won’t say squat. Penata knows that if the hearing go forward the CIA briefers will out Pelosi even more. He had to write the memo.

[Grampa Dave]

On Sept. 4, 2002, less than a year after 9/11, the CIA briefed Rep. Porter Goss, then House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Mrs. Pelosi, then the committee’s ranking Democrat, on EITs including water boarding. They were the first members of Congress to be informed.

So, who was the director of the CIA from 9/11 to 2004?

George J. Tenet was the Director of CIA from 1997–2004 .

Tenet was appointed by President Clinton and approved by Congress. Tenet then became the CIA director in August of 1997.

So, Pelosi is now saying that George Tenet lied to her or ordered his congressional briefers to lie to Nancy.

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!