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Pelosi says she learned of waterboarding in 2003

Under strong attack from Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA and Bush administration of misleading her about waterboarding detainees in the war on terror and sharply rebutted claims she was complicit in its use.

“To the contrary ... we were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used,” she told reporters, referring to a formal CIA briefing she received in the fall of 2002.

Pelosi said she subsequently learned that other lawmakers were told several months later by the CIA about the use of waterboarding.

“I wasn’t briefed, I was informed that somebody else had been briefed about it,” she said.

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“To the contrary ... we were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used,”

FIRST we’ve heard this! Ha! All along she’s been saying she was just told it was an option...now she’s saying she was told EXPLICITLY that it was NOT being used!

And comparing being “lied to” to Bush’s “lie” about WMDs in Iraq. aghhh.

“To the contrary ... we were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used,” she told reporters, referring to a formal CIA briefing she received in the fall of 2002.
Pelosi said she subsequently learned that other lawmakers were told several months later by the CIA about the use of waterboarding.

“I wasn’t briefed, I was informed that somebody else had been briefed about it,” she said.

"Briefed," "informed," "told," "made aware," etc., synonyms and semantics.

She declares that at least one other person (NAME PLEASE?) in her circle knew within several months of the fall of 2002 briefing that water boarding was then being or had been used.

By her account, she received this knowledge sometime between late 2002 and "several months" into 2003--let's make the math easy and say mid-May of 2003.

It is now May of 2009.

2009 - 2003 = 6

She has known this for six years but not said anything until now because? . . . She sat on this knowledge through how many election cycles because? . . . Does she not realize what she is ~~saying~~ confessing?/s