Posted on 05/15/2009 2:14:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim Thursday that CIA officials lied to her about waterboarding prompted a sharp rebuke from Republicans, some pushback from intelligence officials and a lukewarm response from at least one high-ranking member of her own party.
Hoping to quell a “what did she know and when did she know it” furor over so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, Pelosi told reporters Thursday that CIA officials “misled” her during a September 2002 briefing by telling her that waterboarding had not been used on terror detainees.
“The only mention of waterboarding in the briefing was that it was not being employed,” Pelosi said during a press briefing. The California Democrat said that the CIA briefers had given her “inaccurate and incomplete information.” Asked whether they’d “lied” to her, Pelosi nodded her head yes.
The Republican pushback came quickly.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking member on the House intelligence committee, called Pelosi’s account “Version 5.0 from Nancy on what happened in that September meeting.”
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today Panetta answers...FR thread:
Panetta to CIA employees: We told Pelosi the truth
And newt fires away:
fyi
She can’t remember when she turned her hearing aid off or back on so she has denialability as to who said what, when, where, and why. Since it would put her in deep !!! Ouch this may leave more of a mark than she knows.
Nanners only attends meetings where meaningless topics and wasted time is the theme. Go home witch
While I am not surprised, Political just LIED.
Pelosi did far more that nod her head!
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 1997–2004 was the Director of CIA.
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.
I'm leaving now for a stock run of Reddenbacker!
I have a huge jar/vat of Reddenbacker and have cracked the code to pop it in our new microwave.
We have a good supply of lemonade and micro brew.
Thanks,...I think I have only seen edited version of this....including the one from Foxnews....
Have you seen the video linked at #10....Nancie is saying at one point her job was to get a new president elected...I think I heard that....LOL.
Wonder who gave her that assignment..?
Back Obama for Pres. and work against me; pay the price, beotch.
~Hillary C.
Rep. Hoyer On Blaming CIA: "I Don't Draw That Conclusion"
Listen to Hoyer....sounds like a formal inquiry may happen...
Thanks...
LOL....Nancy has a problem.
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