Spokesman Brendan Daly told me that Pelosi wants a truth commission, "but she still realizes the political reality" - as in the opposition of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.Posted on 04/30/2009 7:51:48 AM PDT by SmithL
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a "truth commission" to investigate the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding - until Republicans started shining the spotlight on Pelosi herself. Now she is not so adamant.
Spokesman Brendan Daly told me that Pelosi wants a truth commission, "but she still realizes the political reality" - as in the opposition of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The rest of the reality may well be this: Pelosi knew that White House lawyers had sanctioned waterboarding in 2002 - and did not protest.
According to the Senate Intelligence committee, the CIA briefed Pelosi, then the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah - who was waterboarded - in 2002.
The Washington Post reported in 2007 that the 2002 briefing provided Pelosi and company with a "virtual tour" of interrogation techniques. At the time of the story, a congressional source speaking for Pelosi, however, told the Post that Pelosi thought waterboarding was in the planning stages. The source admitted Pelosi did not object.
Who, then, is Pelosi to go after Bush lawyers for sanctioning waterboarding, which she now refers to as torture?
This is what Pelosi said last week: "We were not - I repeat - we were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used." Yes, the Bush Office of Legal Counsel said the techniques "could be used," she explained, "but not that they would."
So Pelosi thought that just because the Bushies were sticking out their necks and authorizing the CIA's use of waterboarding, that did not mean the CIA would use it. And the Democrats called George W. Bush dim and ineffective?
Note that Pelosi used the term "enhanced interrogation methods" ... Not torture.
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..jeeezzzz, a look like her depends had a major malfunction
Nancy is a poster child for the insane.
What did she know and when did she know it?
Easy. Nothing.... ever.
The minutes from the meetings where she was briefed by the CIA will never see the light of day. This whole issue will slowly fade away. I for one believe all this hype about the Swine Flu was put out there to get this thing out of the front page of the news cycle.
“We were not - I repeat - we were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.”
Classic Clintonian parsing. Depends on what “were used” means.
She’s not going to get away with this. Already the zeal for a truth commission is diminish.
To Nancy, wrinkles are torture.
“Why do these things always happen to ME?”
Hmm. Time to get out the popcorn? Debra Saunders, a kneejerk liberal, seems to think that Pelosi is kind of like Richard Nixon. And she seems to think that a Truth Commission is a bad idea.
I’m wondering if Obama isn’t giving Pelosi a little payback, because she was acting as if she was the Big Boss. She and Harry basically put the Porkulus package together, and then shoved it over for Obama to sign.
It was Obama who opened up this whole can of worms again when he released the CIA documents. Maybe her colleagues are getting a little tired of Nancy, and Obama has decided to do a number on her.
Looks as if she’s developing “wattles” around the neck area. They go well with the waffle marks on her face.
Where’s that pic of Sgt. Schultz when you need it?
Does that line of argument sound at all familiar? It's what Kerry said about authorizing combat in Iraq. We voted for the authority, but we were sure he wouldn't use it.
2 seconds?
What took you so long?
Make that minutes
Debra Saunders is the Comicle’s token conservative.
Oh, ah. I should have remembered that.
Still, I think there’s a bit of warfare going on between Obama and Nancy, and Nancy may end up on the short end.
I truly dislike deriding someone based soley upon their appearance, but she truly fits the description of a 'meat sack'.
Ya think?
Right on. Also “We were not told” doesn’t mean she didn’t already know or had been otherwise informed.
a couple of years ago, her face was pulled so tight she looked like Micheal Jackson, all the time she spends wording her lies accurately must have done her in so much that she missed her routine Botox injections. Wasn’t she George Bush’s confidant seeking compromise in political parties in 2006?
Typical libtard snake.
As far as appearance deriding is concerned, we should embrace it even if we don’t like it because it will be a ‘Hate Crime’ eventually anyhow but her personality makes her look like Miss America.
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