Watch Nancy Pelosi Lie Through Her Teeth
In the Washington Post excerpt below, you will see that in 2002 Nancy Pelosi was briefed, along with other key congressional leaders on the CIA techniques of waterboarding and other methods, then watch the video…let there be no question, Pelosi knew about waterboarding techniques used by the CIA in 2002. Her pride nailed her, because she says to Wallace: “I’m the longest-serving member of Congress on the intelligence committee, both on the committee and ex officio as a leader. So we have been briefed on some tactics used by the administration.”
From The Washington Post:
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.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
“The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,” said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.
Congressional leaders from both parties would later seize on waterboarding as a symbol of the worst excesses of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism effort. The CIA last week admitted that videotape of an interrogation of one of the waterboarded detainees was destroyed in 2005 against the advice of Justice Department and White House officials, provoking allegations that its actions were illegal and the destruction was a coverup.
Yet long before “waterboarding” entered the public discourse, the CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of that technique and other harsh interrogation methods, according to interviews with multiple U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge.
With one known exception, no formal objections were raised by the lawmakers briefed about the harsh methods during the two years in which waterboarding was employed, from 2002 to 2003, said Democrats and Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).
Individual lawmakers’ recollections of the early briefings varied dramatically, but officials present during the meetings described the reaction as mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support. “Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing,” said Goss, who chaired the House intelligence committee from 1997 to 2004 and then served as CIA director from 2004 to 2006. “And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement.”
Now watch this bitch lie:
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Oh, cripes, Bash! How weird is that?
I have always thought the best candidate to play the Joker in the new series of The Batman (The Dark Knight) movies with Christian Bale is Nancy Pelosi!!!
Great twisted minds think alike, eh?
December 11th, 2007 at 8:20 amDamn….Pelosi is looking good, what did she change?
December 11th, 2007 at 8:51 amAren’t you forgetting the rules, Bash?
Lying’s only wrong when Republicans do it.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:22 amI reviewed this and noted an interesting trait for this Rat, Pelosi is only able to blink when she is LYING!
December 11th, 2007 at 10:19 amDude, that is some funny shit. Needs to be on a T-shirt.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:51 am