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“Madam Doublespeaker”
By: Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, May 12, 2009
SNIPPET: “What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it?
That’s hardly the question that the Democratic House Speaker wanted asked when she recently threw her support behind the Orwellian-sounding “Truth Commission” to investigate former Bush administration staffers who drafted the harsh interrogation techniques that Democrats now call “torture.” But with evidence mounting that Pelosi was briefed on those same interrogation methods as far back as 2002 – and did nothing to oppose their use – Pelosi may soon become the object of the political inquisition she once hoped to lead.
Last week, for instance, it emerged that one of Pelosi’s central claims – that she, along with other Congressional Democrats, was entirely in the dark about the kinds of interrogation tactics being used on high-level terrorist detainees – was almost certainly fiction. Records released to Congress by the CIA revealed that Pelosi was among the Congressional leaders who in 2002 were informed that “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) had been used on al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. Specifically, the records indicated that during a September 4, 2002 meeting, Pelosi was one of those briefed “on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of the particular EITs that had been employed.” There was no specific mention of waterboarding, but given that the Zubaydah was one of only three detainees on whom the procedure was used, there is every reason to think that Pelosi knew full well what interrogators were doing.
The point is significant because it directly contradicts Pelosi’s previous claim that she had been told only that enhanced interrogation techniques “could be used” but not that they were. “We were not — I repeat — were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used,” Pelosi said last month, insisting that she was informed only that “they could be used, but not that they would” be. After last week’s revelations, that defense no longer holds water.”
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBvUKe_OIEw
“Lie Exposed: Pelosi’s Power, Oversight and Control of the CIA after being briefed on Waterboarding”
(Added May 13, 2009)
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251163/posts
Dems: CIA briefers may have broken law
Politico ^ | 5/14/09 | MANU RAJU
Posted on May 14, 2009 3:59:48 PM PDT by HospiceNurse
Democrats on the House intelligence committee said Thursday that CIA officers broke the law in 2002 if they told Nancy Pelosi then that they had not yet engaged in waterboarding.
“If they make a false report, absolutely it’s illegal,” said Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “If they fail to make a report when they’re obligated to that is also illegal — a violation of the National Security Act.”
Said CIA Spokesman George Little: “It is not the policy of the CIA to mislead the United States Congress.”
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https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2002/index.html
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2001/index.html