Posted on 05/16/2009 9:27:29 AM PDT by xtinct
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has backed down slightly in her fight with the CIA, saying that she really meant only to criticize the Bush administration rather than career officials.
"My criticism of the manner in which the Bush Administration did not appropriately inform Congress is separate from my respect for those in the intelligence community who work to keep our country safe," Pelosi said in a statement.
Pelosi caused an uproar Thursday when she accused the CIA of lying to her about its use of waterboarding which she considers torture on terrorism suspects.
Her comment came after President Obama's CIA director, Leon Panetta, challenged her version of events, insisting that his agency told her the truth in a controversial September 2002 briefing.
Panetta, who served with Pelosi in Congress as a fellow California Democrat, had issued a memo to CIA staff Friday reiterating that agency records show "CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing 'the enhanced techniques that had been employed,'" according to CIA records.
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Would be funny if Pelosi ran for GOV against Cindy Sheehan, and Sheehan won.
Then, I suppose, Pelosi could end up joining Code Pink.
I vote for stupid and condescending.
That’s hilarious..
Pelosi’s new theme song.
Rush should use it when talking about the hag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMXGSP_nPyY
Now, I just can't make up my mind. To pick up on one and leave the other behind.
Tough call.
Continuing IMHO, this will be swept under the rug. Nancy is "too big to fail."
Who was it who actually conducted the briefings? The Bush admin or the CIA?
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 19972004 .
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.
Ahh, she double dinged them....first saying they lied, and then in her reply, injecting the not so suble phrase about congressional oversight which was her not so subtle way of saying she was going to muck with their financing. It is not bright of anyone to play chicken with the CIA.
“Ahh, she double dinged them....first saying they lied, and then in her reply, injecting the not so suble phrase about congressional oversight which was her not so subtle way of saying she was going to muck with their financing. It is not bright of anyone to play chicken with the CIA.”
It is past time to remove her from being The Speaker of House and any responsible position in congress.
The scum of Gay Frisco will re elect her until she leaves the planet as she is their role model. So let her stay in Congress with no power, shunned by the mediots and both parties.
If she keeps playing chicken with the CIA, they will remove her from power, no doubt.
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