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PELOSI IN A PICKLE (Panetta: "long tradition of making political hay out of CIA business")
NY POST ^ | 5/16/09 | EDITORIAL

Posted on 05/16/2009 6:35:59 AM PDT by Liz

Washington has never seen anything like Speaker Pelosi's ever-shifting tales of what she'd been told. Even Nixon didn't have this much trouble explaining what he knew and when he knew it.......if Pelosi knew waterboarding -- which she now sanctimoniously describes as illegal "torture" -- was on the CIA's list of Gitmo practices, why didn't she raise a ruckus at the time? ...... she says, she focused on "chang[ing] the leadership in Congress and the White House. That was my job." But now she seems to want anyone in the Bush admin who even uttered the word locked up. CIA Director Panetta said: "It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress......CIA officers briefed truthfully on 'the enhanced techniques that had been employed.' "

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: panetta; pelosi
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To: Grampa Dave
O's not running a gov't. He's running a reelection pastorate for worshipful Dems.

Messiah of the Church of Whatever Works For Me.

41 posted on 05/16/2009 7:21:14 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: Freedom Dignity n Honor
Instead, she says, she focused on "chang[ing] the leadership in Congress and the White House. That was my job."

Good Grief! I thought her job was to do the best for the United States! She's so shallow and dim.

Yes, but what better example that the Democrats are more interested in power for themselves than what is good for the country!

42 posted on 05/16/2009 7:23:27 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Moonman62

I agree with you!!!!!


43 posted on 05/16/2009 7:26:44 AM PDT by nikos1121 (We can thank Jimmy Carter for the world as it is today............)
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To: Grampa Dave
DESERVES A REPEAT:

ITEM On Sept. 4, 2002, less than a year after 9/11, the CIA briefed Rep. Porter Goss, then House Intel Committee chair, and Mrs. Pelosi, then the committee’s ranking Democrat, on EITs including water boarding. The first members of Congress to be informed.

ITEM George J. Tenet was appointed CIA director Aug 1997 (served during 9/11 to 2004).

ITEM Tenet was appointed by Pres Clinton and approved by Congress.

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

44 posted on 05/16/2009 7:27:32 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: Zakeet
Pelosi will make a great poster child for retaking Congress. I only hope that the democRats don't have the sense to force her out before the 2010 elections.

In November 2006, the stock market was approaching a record high, the economy was looking very strong, unemployment was at 4.5 percent, gasoline averaged $2.19 per gallon and public approval of Congress was higher than that of the president.

In January 2007, the democRats took control of both houses of Congress. Since then, both the economy and stock markets have crashed, unemployment has doubled, gasoline went up above $4.00 per gallon, and only came down when the rest of the economy tanked. Public approval of Congress is not only below the lowest public approval rating that president Bush ever received, but has sunk to an all-time low and has stayed there for almost two years.

Take a lesson from the democRats. Demonize Pelosi and run against her in every Congressional district in the country. Continually remind voters that the economy started to go to hell immediately AFTER the democRats seized control of Congress in the November 2006 elections.

Put Polosi's picture in every campaign ad.

It is time to change Congress. Throw the moonbats out!

45 posted on 05/16/2009 7:28:38 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Crisis - America Held Hostage)
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To: Popman
Panetta has self preservation foremost in his mind - what the CIA can do to Pelosi, they can also do to him. Those folks at Langley have long memories.
46 posted on 05/16/2009 7:37:43 AM PDT by Apercu ("A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus)
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To: TalBlack
Those have been my exact thoughts.....I bet if we did deep enough, we might even find Hillary pushing this somehow.

Remember, Penetta is a Clintonista

47 posted on 05/16/2009 7:38:07 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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To: Cacique; Condor51
Coming to America soon.....first the internal purges. Obama will clean house on the Dem side...Once he has consolidated and centralized power he will come after us.

Obama campaigned on ordering up a strong Civilian National Security Force.

Obama's COS Rahm Emanuel knows how to organize that.

Rahm's a dual citizen who volunteered for Sar'el, which is a three week program in which civilians "assist" the Israeli Defense Forces.

Look for Obama praising such a program then trying to implement it in the US.

48 posted on 05/16/2009 7:40:28 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: Moonman62

We no longer have smoke-filled rooms that pick our party candidates but when a politician in a highly visible public office becomes an embarrassment to the president or otherwise a liability, the “machine” can easily be cranked up to perform a post-election abortion. Zero and crew desperately want to be perceived as competent and Miss Nancy isn’t. She has to go to make way for a staid, surface-conservative who can help improve the Dem image before 2010.


49 posted on 05/16/2009 7:45:19 AM PDT by cartoonistx
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To: Ann Archy

Pelosi made it clear from day one that she wasn’t going to share power with Obama, and that she was going to dictate policy. She’s going down. People around here may not like Obama for good reason, but he’s much better than her.


50 posted on 05/16/2009 7:48:52 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Liz

Even Hitler wants her gone

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251967/posts


51 posted on 05/16/2009 7:54:27 AM PDT by doug from upland (10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: Moonman62

I remember she sort of warned him that she was in charge.
I think Obama realizes she has exhausted her usefulness and is a liability. She’s going to be replaced.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19389.html


52 posted on 05/16/2009 8:04:10 AM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: Liz

The shit is going to hit the fan BIG time.

If the CIA is lying, it shows that the neocons have corrupted the CIA, and probably other branches of government as well.
If Pelosi’s lying, it shows that she and quite a few dems, are big f**king liars about the ‘evil’, human rights opposing CIA.

Let’s see, a lying politician, or a lying CIA agent. Which is more believable?


53 posted on 05/16/2009 8:34:49 AM PDT by linbiao123
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To: doug from upland

Great work Doug. Its a winner.


54 posted on 05/16/2009 8:41:07 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: princess leah

Yes I don’t really want her removed yet, if we can keep this up for about 6 months nothing can get done in the house. That would be a very good thing!


55 posted on 05/16/2009 9:27:09 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: TalBlack

You are so right.


56 posted on 05/16/2009 9:28:03 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Liz
To use an old saw ... "her elevator does not go all the way to the top."

Her Confessor really must get an earful ... providing she still has one.
57 posted on 05/16/2009 9:34:04 AM PDT by AKA Elena (Mary, Help of Christians, Pray for us.)
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To: linbiao123
If the CIA is lying, it shows that the neocons have corrupted the CIA, and probably other branches of government as well.

That, sweetheart, is music to my ears. No question, the punkneos infiltrated the US govt bigtime.......including our L/E agencies......one of the reasons Madoff was never nailed.

They're like a sexually transmitted disease...... oozing sores that pop up all over the place.

Now Guess Who was the first to mention "torture" accusations to discredit Bush?

R-i-g-h-t.

When the pukes leashed up McC, they pulled tightly until McC made the "torture" accusations. The pukes despise Bush b/c he did not advance their Eternal War agenda. They are out to "get him." Now they're under O's desk making nice (sucking up to Obama---where the power is).

58 posted on 05/16/2009 9:44:56 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: Liz
It's pelosi's fault!!

59 posted on 05/16/2009 10:05:16 AM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Cacique

Nancy is Trotsky to Obama’s Stalin?

Or better yet, Nancy is “Snowball” to Obama’s “Napoleon”


60 posted on 05/16/2009 11:00:23 AM PDT by tophat9000 ( We are "O" so f---ed)
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