Posted on 04/23/2009 1:50:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: I didn't know about waterboarding
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing back on GOP charges that she knew about waterboarding for years and did nothing.
Pelosi says she was briefed by Bush administration officials on the legal justification for using waterboarding — but that they never followed through on promises to inform her when they actually began using "enhanced" interrogation techniques
"In that or any other briefing…we were not, and I repeat, we're not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel ... opinions that they could be used," she told reporters today.
Earlier, House Minority Leader John Boehner (D-Ohio) criticized Pelosi and other Democratic leaders for backing probes into the use of waterboarding — after failing to raise objections during briefings on its potential use.
"Well, yesterday I saw a partial list of the number of members of the House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans, who were briefed on these interrogation methods and not a word was raised at the time, not one word," Boehner told reporters at his weekly news availability.
"And I think you're going to hear more and more about the bigger picture here, that what — the war on terror after 9/11 was done in a bipartisan basis on lots of fronts. And that bigger story will be coming out," he added.
Pelosi says members who receive classified intelligence briefings are powerless to act on them — or even discuss them with staff.
As a consequence, some members simply skip the meetings, so they aren't "hamstrung" by confidentiality requirements.
Pelosi is certifiably a soul-less creature. The totality of her substance is megalomania and an unrelenting thirst for power and control. Father Malachi Martin spoke of "perfectly possessed" individuals. I think she qualifies.
that’s ganna come back to bite her
I suspect a microscope will be somehow involved on the procedure.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0409/Pelosi_briefed_on_waterboarding_in_02_.html
Pelosi briefed on waterboarding in ‘02
Someone is missing something here. She admitted to knowing that waterboarding had been “approved”. She just said she had not been briefed in WHEN it actually happened. WHY AREN’T PEOPLE JUMPING ON THIS??
Hand me the pliers, wouldya?
Well, it would seem she was briefed on it. It is still possible that she didn’t know anything about it, in which case, this is proof positive that she’s dumb as a post and should resign from the Speakership for the good of the nation, the House, and even her own party.
2007: Torture update: What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it?
Let’s add it to the list of things she doesn’t know anything about...
• honesty
• integrity
• consistency
• the catechism
• humility
• confession
• repentance
Confession Nancy Confession .
I have far more respect for John Banner. He was a Viennese Jew who fled after the Anschluss and served in the US Army Air Corps. When he took up acting in the US- he didn’t speak English. He learned his lines phonetically, then learned English.
Overall a pretty decent human being. And, the president of the Schatze Toy Company, Gmbh. :-)
Pelosi sleep with her eyes open because they will not close because of all the BOTOX she has used.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664.html?hpid=topnews
Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002 In Meetings, Spy Panels' Chiefs Did Not Protest, Officials Say
Sunday, December 9, 2007
With one known exception, no formal objections were raised by the lawmakers briefed about the harsh methods during the two years in which waterboarding was employed, from 2002 to 2003, said Democrats and Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).
Graham said he has no memory of ever being told about waterboarding or other harsh tactics. Graham left the Senate intelligence committee in January 2003, and was replaced by Rockefeller. "Personally, I was unaware of it, so I couldn't object," Graham said in an interview. He said he now believes the techniques constituted torture and were illegal.
Pelosi declined to comment directly on her reaction to the classified briefings. But a congressional source familiar with Pelosi's position on the matter said the California lawmaker did recall discussions about enhanced interrogation. The source said Pelosi recalls that techniques described by the CIA were still in the planning stage -- they had been designed and cleared with agency lawyers but not yet put in practice -- and acknowledged that Pelosi did not raise objections at the time.
Harman, who replaced Pelosi as the committee's top Democrat in January 2003, disclosed Friday that she filed a classified letter to the CIA in February of that year as an official protest about the interrogation program. Harman said she had been prevented from publicly discussing the letter or the CIA's program because of strict rules of secrecy.
"When you serve on intelligence committee you sign a second oath -- one of secrecy," she said. "I was briefed, but the information was closely held to just the Gang of Four. I was not free to disclose anything."
She’s lying through her botox!
Booooosh**!
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nancy-pelosi-on-waterboarding-in-october
video and transcript in 2007
WALLACE: It’s been disclosed this week that the Justice Department, after publicly declaring torture abhorrent in 2004, secretly, a few months later, approved the — in combination — the use of head slapping, water boarding and exposure to extreme temperatures.
The president now says that the leadership, the Congress, was fully informed, and that this is not torture.
First question: Were you ever briefed about this policy or the secret Justice Department memos?
PELOSI: Well, in order to know if I’m briefed about it, I’d have to be briefed about it now. What exactly is the president talking about? Yes, let me get my credentials right out there. I’m the longest-serving member of Congress on the intelligence committee, both on the committee and ex officio as a leader. So we have been briefed on some tactics used by the administration.
But I’d have to see what we’re talking about here, because this is — all I know is what I’ve read in the New York Times.
WALLACE: You were never briefed about these secret memos in 2005?
PELOSI: No, not about the secret memos.
Rule of Thumb: If a democrat’s lips are moving, you know they’re lyin’.
“I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout waterboardin’ no terr’rist.”
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