Pelosi Accuses CIA of Misleading Congress on Waterboarding

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Speaker's Comments Raise Detainee Debate to New Level

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 15, 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's extraordinary accusation that the Bush administration lied to Congress about the use of harsh interrogation techniques dramatically raised the stakes in the growing debate over the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies even as it raised some questions about the speaker's credibility.

Pelosi's performance in the Capitol was either a calculated escalation of a long-running feud with the Bush administration or a reckless act by a politician whose word had been called into question. Perhaps it was both.

For the first time, Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged that in 2003 she was informed by an aide that the CIA had told others in Congress that officials had used waterboarding during interrogations. But she insisted, contrary to CIA accounts, that she was not told about waterboarding during a September 2002 briefing by agency officials. Asked whether she was accusing the CIA of lying, she replied, "Yes, misleading the Congress of the United States."

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Nancy Pelosi is scum. Worse than Jesse Ventura who doesnt know the difference between a lie and the truth. To be surprised at this is to have just woken up from under a fucking bridge after 10 years of sleep.She was the Minority lead for fuck sakes. She is too fucking involved in EVERYTHING to have NOT known. Id dislike her no matter WHAT party she served.

[Jim]

This issue is not going away:

Democrats Defending Pelosi
Caucus Stands Behind Leader in CIA Briefing Controversy
By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

House Democrats have rushed to the defense of Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her public battle with the CIA, a reflection of the enormous loyalty the California Democrat enjoys in her caucus despite a month-long effort by Republicans to use the dispute to weaken her standing.

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Yesterday several leading Democrats joined her in criticizing the CIA's procedures for briefing Congress on intelligence issues

You reckon that Service members are not the only people in the world suffering from "Power Point fatigue"?

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Democrats Say C.I.A. Deceived Congress

WASHINGTON — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony that the C.I.A. concealed “significant actions” from Congress from 2001 until late last month, seven Democratic committee members said.

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Democrats Say C.I.A. Deceived Congress

WASHINGTON — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony that the C.I.A. concealed “significant actions” from Congress from 2001 until late last month, seven Democratic committee members said.

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Damn if that article just full of ambiguity. So the source is the New York Times, known for it unbiased honesty, and the article is about a closed door session, of which there is no notes, or testimony that can be published.

Convenient for Pelosi.

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Democrats Say C.I.A. Deceived Congress

WASHINGTON — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony that the C.I.A. concealed “significant actions” from Congress from 2001 until late last month, seven Democratic committee members said.

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Damn if that article just full of ambiguity. So the source is the New York Times, known for it unbiased honesty, and the article is about a closed door session, of which there is no notes, or testimony that can be published.

Convenient for Pelosi.

You have to be amazed at the Dems ability to screen their movement.