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Pelosi: Bush briefers lied to me
politico ^ | 35 mins ago

Posted on 05/14/2009 8:41:39 AM PDT by jessduntno

Pelosi: Bush briefers lied to me

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Bush administration told her explicitly they weren't using waterboarding on terror detainees during a Sept. 2002 briefing on interrogation tactics -- months after they had begun waterboarding Abu Zabaydah.

Pelosi also called on CIA director Leon Panetta to release full details on her briefing -- and shook her head in the affirmative when asked if the administration had actually "lied" to her.

"The only mention of waterboarding in the briefing was that it was not being employed," she told reporters, reading from a prepared statement -- twice for emphasis.

The intelligence briefers gave Pelosi, she said, "inaccurate and incomplete information."

"Perhaps they should release the briefing-- I would be very happy if they released the briefing," Pelosi added.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 111th; democratcongress; democrats; interrogation; liar; liarliar; pelosi
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To: jessduntno
What I'm wondering is how long the CIA is going to keep voluntarily looking like total garbage to keep liberals out of trouble and prop up their stupid agendas. How many times per week do DemonRats have to wine and dine CIA bosses so that they'll continue to not defend themselves against constant allegations of incompetence? The political appointees at the top come and go, but I'm just amazed that the CIA can even get anybody to work for them anymore.

The career management, even the loyal-to-the-core DemonRats, have got to get sick of the constant public accusations of lying, cheating, and incompetence on literally a daily basis and seeing their senior management do nothing. They must all take a prozac the size of a softball every morning to deal with it.

221 posted on 05/14/2009 6:36:06 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: jessduntno

Looks like Bill & Hill are behind this fiasco.


222 posted on 05/14/2009 6:48:52 PM PDT by Anna W (ll looser\)
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To: jessduntno

I was reading my status feed on facebook just a while ago, and I noticed notes from several friends who are hard-core Democrats and Obama supporters slamming Pelosi and saying that she should step down.

You know that it’s bad when even liberal Democrats want Pelosi gone.


223 posted on 05/14/2009 8:24:58 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Amerigomag

“The only mention of waterboarding in the briefing was that it was not being employed,”
A really odd statement.

It brings to mind a theater commander mentioning to a tactical commander that “We’re holding the new super weapon in reserve.”, without explanation of the nature and capabilities of the new super weapon to the tactical officer.

Just odd.


“We’re here to discuss the stuff we’re not doing. We thought you needed to know because, y’know, we’re, um, well....”


224 posted on 05/14/2009 8:59:39 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: jessduntno
   Dana Milbank writes a good article that vividly describes Pelosi's press briefing Thursday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051403991.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
225 posted on 05/14/2009 9:48:58 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Obama: "I didn't authorize attacks on those pirates." I authorized a tax on those pirates!")
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To: jessduntno
Shut up Nancy.

Your place under the bus is now being readied.

226 posted on 05/14/2009 11:42:57 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: jessduntno

Pelosi, cry me a river you dingbat!


227 posted on 05/15/2009 1:06:10 AM PDT by Patriot777 (Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!!!!!)
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To: jessduntno
She has that deer in headlights look. She appears to be stunned that the media isn't giving her the cover they usually do and keeps trying one lie after another hoping/expecting the MSM to run with one of her lies. That they aren't hints at the possibility that the Obama admin has lifted protection from her.
228 posted on 05/15/2009 1:48:32 AM PDT by highlander_UW (The only difference between the MSM and the DNC is the MSM sells ad space in their propaganda)
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To: ak267
Evolution of a meltdown

1. I was NEVER informed
2. The Bush admin played word games with me
3. I never thought they would do it
4. I was lied to
5. I claim ignorance

6. I wasn't in the room when that was said. I had to make a head call. I drank a lot of iced tea that day.

229 posted on 05/15/2009 3:02:24 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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To: Roccus
6. I wasn't in the room when that was said. I had to make a head call. I drank a lot of iced tea that day.

7. I couldn't hear them, the sun was in my eyes.

230 posted on 05/15/2009 3:11:53 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: jessduntno
PelosiNocchio keeps digging.


231 posted on 05/15/2009 4:46:10 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: jessduntno

As far as I know (and I’m not a total political news junkie), Botox Nan is the only person claiming the CIA lied to them. If they lied to Pelosi, they must have lied to others about this as well. So far, I don’t see other members of Congress crying “they lied to me too!”

I think the rest of Congress, including her own party, despise her. For them, this is a convenient way for her to go down and they don’t have to get their hands dirty.


232 posted on 05/15/2009 6:13:57 AM PDT by henkster (The GOP is housebroken window-dressing displayed to portray the fiction of a Republic.)
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To: henkster

Yes...the BOTOX has finally consumed her last brain cell.


233 posted on 05/15/2009 7:14:12 AM PDT by evad (Obama's Socialism is a giant PONZI scheme)
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To: JrsyJack

Clinton lacky Leon Panetta is the current head of the CIA... Do you think he’s going to release something damaging to Pelosi? Granted, they’ll probably get some political concessions from her in exchange but mark my words, there is no way the full brief ever sees the light of day... unless it truly does exonerate her. LOL. Sorry I just made a little joke there.


234 posted on 05/15/2009 8:59:41 AM PDT by Honcho
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To: Senator_Blutarski

All evidence that the brief doesn’t exonerate Pelosi and that the White House is looking for political concessions before it’s deemed “too sensitive” to release.


235 posted on 05/15/2009 9:03:12 AM PDT by Honcho
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To: jessduntno

Her press conference was humiliating. I thought at any given moment she was going to start slapping her self in the head, curl into a fetal position, wet herself and suck her thumb.


236 posted on 05/15/2009 9:48:37 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: jessduntno

if Pelosi says that they lied well she would know .. everything she says is a lie so she can spot them for sure!


237 posted on 05/15/2009 1:48:46 PM PDT by Munz ("We're all here for you OK? It's a circle of love" Rham Emanuel)
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To: jessduntno

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 water boarding. They were the first members of Congress to be informed.

So, who was the director of the CIA, from 9/11 to 2004?

George J. Tenet was the Director of CIA, from 1997–2004 .

Tenet was appointed by President Clinton and approved by Congress. Tenet then became the CIA director in August of 1997.

So, Pelosi is now saying that George Tenet lied to her or ordered his congressional briefers to lie to Nancy.


238 posted on 05/16/2009 12:53:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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