[xtinct]

Pelosi needs to resign as House Speaker now...

[bboop]

Get the popcorn.

[highlander_UW]

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.

Of course she did, but like the idiot she is she failed to remember, they are the same career officials now as they were under president Bush. And it wasn't president Bush that was giving intelligence briefings it was the CIA career officials she called liars. Pelosi is the liar and has forgotten the rule about stop digging when you find yourself in a hole.

[eyedigress]

Hey Nanners, The “Blame Bush” game is getting old. You called the CIA liars and that’s it.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

saying that she really meant only to criticize the Bush administration

....so that makes it okay to falsely charge an agency w/ a crime? Too late Nancy, the horse has left the barn.

[TheOldLady]

If this woman has a single sane knuckle on a single toe in her entire body, I'll eat my baseball caps.

She looks, acts, and speaks like a madwoman.

Her popularity is probably 2-3% in the internals, so they're tossing her under the bus, and Steny is kicking her under the wheels.

[tips up]

If the CIA is so bad, she should just defund it. Let her try that.

[alecqss]

Pelosi needs to resign as House Speaker now...

She would rather be waterboarded.

[Riley]

I have a waaay-out-there lefty relative. I haven’t spoken to her in a while, but she’s really predictable. I can just hear her, “The G-D- Republicans are making poor Nancy Pelosi’s life hell”.

I can’t bear to call her up any more; she knows all of the buttons to push to goad me- and she’s so far from reality that it’s almost sad.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From The Hill

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RELATED:

View the documents that detail which members were briefed on interrogation techniques
PANETTA: CIA director says Pelosi was told the truth
AVOIDANCE: White House ducks Pelosi-CIA battle
THE STORM: Pelosi deflects waterboarding criticism
PROBE: Lindsey Graham threatens to call speaker
NO. 2: Hoyer wants all the facts out

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And thread with Krauthammer...well hammering:

Why Pelosi's Hypocrisy Matters

[GOPJ]

So her position is that it's OK to lie about Republicans - but not about the CIA? ...And my feelings about that? It rhymes with witch.

[Exton1]

Republicans are accused of lying with no proof and everyone cares; Democrats are proven to lie and no one cares

[Arrowhead1952]

Better stop digging san fran nan.

[upchuck]

IMHO, she realizes she overstepped, she realizes she has been caught in [multiple?] lies, has fallen face first into quick sand and is now disparately backpedaling as fast as she can.

Continuing IMHO, this will be swept under the rug. Nancy is "too big to fail."

[Brilliant]

Who was it who actually conducted the briefings? The Bush admin or the CIA?

[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.