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Congress and Waterboarding (Nancy Pelosi was an accomplice to 'torture.')
WSJ ^ | May 13, 2009 | KARL ROVE

Posted on 05/13/2009 8:59:48 PM PDT by RobinMasters

Someone important appears not to be telling the truth about her knowledge of the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). That someone is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The political persecution of Bush administration officials she has been pushing may now ensnare her.

Here's what we know. 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 waterboarding. They were the first members of Congress to be informed.

In December 2007, Mrs. Pelosi admitted that she attended the briefing, but she wouldn't comment for the record about precisely what she was told. At the time the Washington Post spoke with a "congressional source familiar with Pelosi's position on the matter" and summarized that person's comments this way: "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."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cia; interrogation; pelosi; rove

1 posted on 05/13/2009 8:59:48 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

How Speaker Hoyer handling this?


2 posted on 05/13/2009 9:06:48 PM PDT by pointsal
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Peloci is an accomplice to torture. She must be brought before the UN Rights Commission.
3 posted on 05/13/2009 9:06:48 PM PDT by unkus
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4 posted on 05/13/2009 9:19:46 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Because I am against Abortion - The DNC Controlled Fed Says I am terrorist.)
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To: RobinMasters

Thanks Karl Rove. You have one fine mind.


5 posted on 05/13/2009 9:22:20 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (We're Not In Kansas Anymore, Toto!)
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To: RobinMasters

Wow - she made enemies out of the wrong people.


6 posted on 05/13/2009 9:31:42 PM PDT by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: RobinMasters

The Bitch lied; Americans died.

Time to try her for treason.


7 posted on 05/13/2009 10:12:48 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: RobinMasters
'Nuff said!


8 posted on 05/14/2009 4:26:08 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Pooloser has taken on the wrong man.


9 posted on 05/14/2009 5:00:24 AM PDT by safetysign
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