PELOSI LIES: Could Have Stopped Waterboarding If She Wanted

The Lid/Washington Post ^ | 1/29/10 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Last April Nancy Pelosi sparked a furor when she claimed that the CIA was always lying to Congress. Additionally her contention was she was briefed by Bush administration officials on the legal justification for using water boarding, but they never told her the technique was actually being used. It was the Nancy Pelosi version of "I tried it but I never inhaled."

"In that or any other briefing we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel opinions that they could be used,"

Then in May the self-proclaimed most powerful woman in the world was backed into a corner. At the time of her weekly press briefing, Pelosi had been forced to acknowledge that in February 2003, she was told that waterboarding was being used. When asked why she didn't say anything about it then, she threw Rep. Jane Harmon under the bus:

[CPT Clay]

Yep

[Nateman]