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Hoyer wants Pelosi facts out [brake out the popcorn....]
The Hill ^

Posted on 05/12/2009 5:53:07 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Hoyer wants Pelosi facts out By Jared Allen and Mike Soraghan Posted: 05/12/09 07:53 PM [ET]

The No. 2 Democrat in the House on Tuesday said Americans should be provided answers on what Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about interrogations of suspected terrorists and when she knew about it.

But he also indicated that those answers might give the embattled Speaker political cover.

“I think the facts need to get out,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters on Tuesday when asked about calls from both sides of the aisle for congressional investigations into the formulation of the so-called torture memos.

The Pelosi interrogation controversy has become a major distraction as the White House and congressional Democrats are seeking to move their top agenda items, most notably healthcare reform and climate change legislation. It is likely that Pelosi (D-Calif.) will be grilled about interrogations at her weekly press conference on Thursday.

Hoyer accused Republicans of creating a diversion by focusing on what information leading Democrats received about interrogation techniques. But he is now the highest-ranking Democrat to say that such information should be made public.

“I think the Republicans are simply trying to distract the American public with who knew what when,” Hoyer said. “The issue is not what was said or what was known; the focus ought to be on what was done.

“But I think, frankly,” the majority leader added, “the information about what was said and when it was said and who said it — I think that probably ought to be on the record, as well, so the American public knows that rather than what I think is somewhat of a distraction rather than a substantive debate.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: break; california; maryland; pelosi; stenyhoyer; waterboardpelosi
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To: counterpunch
We’re going to have to waterboard Nanzi Pelozi to get the truth out of her.

Are you certain she breathes air?

Maybe she's a Pod Person.

41 posted on 05/12/2009 7:34:00 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The Dems plan to prosecute Bush's lawyers has stalled hasn't it. A bit of a quandary for the Dems. The truth is out that the Dems are hypocrites.
42 posted on 05/12/2009 7:46:18 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Sub-Driver

43 posted on 05/12/2009 7:48:16 PM PDT by South40 (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its Idiot.)
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To: GOP Poet

I heard that Pelosi had been drinking a lot of iced tea and had to go to the bathroom and missed crucial parts of the briefings.....


44 posted on 05/12/2009 7:53:19 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The Pelosi interrogation controversy has become a major distraction as the White House and congressional Democrats are seeking to move their top agenda items, most notably healthcare reform and climate change legislation.

Precisely! Sleight of hand. Don't look over there, look over here.

In this climate we need to be constantly watching the folks spending our money.

Granted, I'd like to see Pelosi brought down a notch or two by this. Ain't gonna happen. Look hard where they don't want you to look.

45 posted on 05/12/2009 7:56:28 PM PDT by upchuck (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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To: chris_bdba

It’s always fun when Baltimore (Pelosi) takes on Prince George’s County (Hoyer) to see who’s the most corrupt in the state.


46 posted on 05/12/2009 8:08:26 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Do you call it 'unsound method'?" "No method at all," I murmured.)
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To: woofer2425

“You don’t think......naw.....he couldn’t.....he just couldn’t be thinking he might have a chance??? Throw Nancy under the bus and take over as top boss of the organization???.....naw....no way!!!”

Someone got the CIA to release those records. Now who could that be?


47 posted on 05/12/2009 8:49:43 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Climate change alarmists are Warm-Mongers. Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are.)
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To: VanShuyten
"It’s always fun when Baltimore (Pelosi)"

I thought Gay Bay elected her?????

48 posted on 05/12/2009 9:49:36 PM PDT by matthew fuller (FEAR NOT- Buckwheat has your back!)
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To: Sub-Driver
what was said and when it was said and who said it — I think that probably ought to be on the record,

Let the record read: "Queen Nancy lied."

49 posted on 05/12/2009 11:48:58 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)
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To: calcowgirl

Nancy is sounding more and more like Democrat presidential candidate material.


50 posted on 05/13/2009 1:47:27 AM PDT by ME-262 (We need Term Limits for the federal house and senate. We need new Bums up there.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Steny Hoyer hates Pelousy. He is getting ready to bust a move on the bimbo.

Interesting that both are longtime Maryland people, Nancy being the idiot daughter of old Tommy D'Allesandro of "Bawlemer"

51 posted on 05/13/2009 4:10:21 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Sub-Driver; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...

What did Nancy D’Alessandro know, and when did she know it? Go, Steny! (Never thought I’d say THAT one!)

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


52 posted on 05/13/2009 8:22:37 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: Sub-Driver

bump


53 posted on 05/13/2009 1:00:39 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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