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.
Hillary Clinton called Dick Cheney a liar yesterday at a press conference.
Can we expect Bela Pelosi to be called a liar publicly as well?
IOW, they couldn't be bothered to actually do their fricking jobs and show up to the briefings, so now they're going to complain they weren't told.
You know, I actually don’t think that she is lying. She seems to be scatter brained enough, that she could/would forget or just not know almost anything.
Like Trotsky being outmaneuvered by Stalin.
...and I’m the Pope.
BULLSTALIN
I doubt that the GOPers have anything to fear unless they come out on the side of Zero and the administration wanting to bring criminal charges against the authors of the memo. The “authors” mind you. Lawyers giving a legal opinion.
Why doesn’t the alphabull networks and their cable flunkies through THAT question up on their polls — “Do you approve of the Administration’s plan to file criminal charges against those that proposed or engaged in enhanced interrogation techniques?”
If Zero continues with this, there will be different signs showing up at the next TEA party.
Typical mob moll though, she wants somebody else to take the rap, but she'll learn. Obama's called for prosecutions and she should be first in line.
I wonder what these people like Pelosi get paid to do?!
I honestly don’t know unless it’s blab, blab, blab!
That would be such justice. She wanted to annihilate President Bush and did everything she could to do so. Now, the sow is in the hot seat - couldn't happen to a better person (although that slot has a lot of people on my list). Let's count how many times she blinks.
I’m not surprised or disturbed that she is lying. I’d be surprised if she didn’t lie about this.
It is much more disturbing that she believes this is a lie sufficient and persuasive enough to get her off this particular hook. Put another way, what idiot would believe this streaming pile of offal she’s offered up?
“She’s lying through her teeth”. Make that dentures.
This means only one of two things:
1. Our representatives admit that they can't be trusted to keep secrets.
Or
2. Our representatives admit that they'd prefer to put Party before Country, and don't want their hands tied with confidentiality restrictions.
-PJ
I call BS Nancy!
Well, if she’s getting paid to either look good or sound coherent, somebody is due a refund.
This whole thing has been about Obama neutralizing Pelosi. Pelosiâs denial was exactly what Obama wanted her to do; She lied and she is now for all intents and purposes going to have to do what she is told, when she is told by Obama or she will be looking for a job.
I could swear I saw news report yesterday detailing what Senators actually saw water boarding and openly wondered if it were effective enough. In fact, they argued for harsher techniques.
I recall that Nancy Pelosi was one those Senators.
Here we go it was in the Washington Post in December.
If they don’t attend the meeting, they are not bound by the secret nature of the information. Seems like I remember some of this stuff going on in the late 60’s early 70’s...
Also looks like shes playing the just because we gave authorization doesnt mean we said it was okay and we thought Bush was actually going to do it ploy
The terrorists are just loving this! Bunch of loser/cowardly/leftists
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