http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=336351621193968
“Speaker Of Lies”
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 4:20 PM PT
SNIPPET: “Public Trust: What did the speaker know, and when did she know it? With CIA documents contradicting Nancy Pelosi’s claims on classified briefings, will a death watch begin on her leadership?
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The newly declassified CIA report on the interrogation of Islamist terrorists notes “in the fall of 2002, the agency briefed the leadership of the Congressional Intelligence Oversight Committees on the use of both standard techniques and EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques).”
The CIA, according to the report, “continued to brief the leadership of the Intelligence Oversight Committees on the use of EITs and detentions in February and March 2003.”
And here’s the zinger: “The general counsel says that none of the participants expressed any concern about the techniques or the program . . . .”
For months, Speaker Pelosi has claimed she and other high-ranking Democrats in Congress who were briefed by the CIA during President Bush’s first term “were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used.”
Others present with her at CIA intelligence briefings, like former House Intelligence Committee Chairman and CIA director Porter Goss, say otherwise.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/nancy_pelosi_and_the_cia_whos.html
March 10, 2010
“Nancy Pelosi and the CIA: Who’s Lying Now?”
By Jane Jamison
SNIPPET: “Along with her difficulties ramming health care down our throats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has an ugly, slightly “cobwebbed” credibility issue that is about to get dusted off and given full, sunlit exposure due to new documents being pried loose by court order.
Pelosi’s “credibility” is under scrutiny due to her unusually harsh criticism of the Central Intelligence Agency last year. When liberals began flapping indignantly a few years ago over “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding, which were used on detained terrorists after 9/11, the CIA defended itself in 2009, saying that certain members of Congress had been aware of the interrogations for years and had done nothing to stop them. It turned out that one of the most outspoken critics of the so-called “torture” techniques, Speaker Pelosi, attended a briefing or briefings.
Ensnared in her own word-web after she had so vociferously criticized the Bush administration for “torturing” terrorists, an indignant Pelosi called a news conference in May 2009 to make the remarkable or reckless assertion that the CIA was “misleading the Congress of the United States” about her knowledge and/or complicit approval of any waterboarding or other tough interrogation tactics and that “they [the CIA] mislead us all the time.””