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There is a lot more evidence that Nancy Pelosi knew all about the waterboarding she now claims to have never heard of, than there ever was evidence that George W. Bush "lied" about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction. Yet for some reason, the people who screamed the loudest their false allegations of Bush "lying", are now curiously silent about Pelosi's clear act.
When can we expect them to resume their self-appointed duty of exposing politicians who actually did lie... such as Pelosi?
Hill Briefed on waterboarding in 2002
In Meetings, Spy Panels' Chiefs Did Not Protest, Officials Say
by Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, December 9, 2007; Page A01
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
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Pelosi was there in the breifings in 2002, when she was a minority party member of the commitee.
Are you trying to imply she could have done something about it? Should she have made the classified information public?
Go ahead. Lay it all out.
Why the hell not? Obama just did. If something is illegal and immoral, as it is now claimed fter the fact, then it was her legal and moral duty to shoot her mouth off about it. That's her job.
And she was Minority Leader. Get the woman's role and title correct, ok?
Why the hell not? Obama just did. If something is illegal and immoral, as it is now claimed fter the fact, then it was her legal and moral duty to shoot her mouth off about it. That's her job.
And she was Minority Leader. Get the woman's role and title correct, ok?
As President, Obama has the ability to declassify classified information. In 2002 Pelosi was not the minority leader and of course did not and does not have that right.
I am, however, highly amused by people attempting to compare Bush's lies with something Pelosi was told 7 years ago.
Pelosi and Porter Goss were the only attendees at the very first of what would be forty EIT briefings on September 4, 2002. Both attendees came to that initial briefing stone-cold, with no advance warning or knowledge of what was to be discussed. The briefing was just a month after EIT had been "approved" as being legal at all, and less than a year after 9/11. Pelosi at the time was the ranking member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. She became Minority Leader in January 2003, and Majority Leader in January 2007. She did not attend any of the so-called Gang of Four briefings after becoming Minority Leader. Security surrounding that briefing and those that followed was tight. No aides, no staff, no notes to be taken, no conversation about the existence or content of the briefings with anyone. "Going public" with any relevant information at all would have been a violation of the oath of office and of various federal statutes concerning the unauthorized disclosure of national security information. When she was first briefed on EIT in January 2003, Pelosi's successor on the HSCI, Jane Harman, DID file a classified objection. We can see what became of that.
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When will the "BUSH LIED!!!" crowd start screaming "PELOSI LIED!!!" about waterboarding briefing?
