And, why would you presume that....
Posted on 02/24/2010 2:17:48 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CIA officials briefed at least 68 U.S. lawmakers between 2001 and 2007 on enhanced interrogation methods like simulated drowning that were being considered or used against captured al Qaeda members, ..
The once-secret CIA papers, obtained in a lawsuit by the conservative legal foundation Judicial Watch, shed new light on which lawmakers knew the details of the controversial interrogation program and when.
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The declassified memos show the program began after the capture of al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian ..
In a statement to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence dated April 12, 2007, then-CIA director Michael Hayden said the agency decided new "techniques" were needed because "Abu Zubaydah was withholding information that could help us track down al Qaeda leaders and prevent attacks."
The CIA briefed lawmakers as it began seeking expanded authority for the interrogation program. Current House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then minority whip, attended a briefing on Abu Zubaydah's interrogation April 24, 2002, along with seven other members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the documents show.
The CIA did not begin using the interrogation techniques until after receiving legal guidance from the Department of Justice in August 2002.
Pelosi, who became House Democratic leader in late 2002, said at a news conference in April last year that she was never told at the time that simulated drowning -- or waterboarding -- and other harsh interrogation techniques were being used. She said she was only told the CIA had legal opinions that approved harsh interrogation methods.
Hayden, in his 2007 statement for the Senate Select Committee, said as the CIA began implementing the interrogation program in 2002 "the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, the speaker, and the minority leader of the House, and the ..
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Oh what a web we weave .. huh Nancy?
Nancy is the epitome of a buffoon.
One other option, she may not be smart enough to know that she had been briefed.
I can’t believe Pelosi brought this up this AGAIN.
This woman never ceases to amaze me...
I do believe that you may have hit the proverbial nail on the head.
And, why would you presume that....
Wow, and AP is reporting this?
Rueters is reporting this?
I’m guessing the briefers did not speak in monosyllables and simple sentences.
The libs were lying again and again.
They are such POS.
Yup.
I saw a couple fox news threads posted yesterday and didn’t see this one posted... just more grist for the mill
Hair = Harry
Perhaps that found this translator, I hear she can work wonders...
Sorry, won’t work. Vocabulary too extensive.
I think Nancy and the donks stuck it to the CIA, and they returned the favor by leaking the global warming/ climate change hoax.
TELL THE TRUTH NANCY!!!
Oh Nan, you ethics queen you.....YOU LIED.
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