Posted on 05/11/2009 5:26:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: Torture protest improper in '03 By: Glenn Thrush and John Bresnahan May 11, 2009 08:14 PM EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said Monday.
The Pelosi camp’s version of events is intended to answer two key questions posed by her critics: When, precisely, did she first learn about waterboarding? And why didn’t she do more to stop it?
Pelosi has disputed a CIA document, released last week, that shows she was briefed in September 2002 on the “particular” interrogation techniques the United States had used on Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. Pelosi has said she was told then only that the Bush administration was considering using certain techniques in the future — and that it had the legal authority to do so.
But there’s no dispute that on Feb. 4, 2003 — five months after Pelosi’s September meeting — CIA officials briefed Pelosi aide Michael Sheehy and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), then the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, on the specific techniques that had been used on Zubaydah — including waterboarding.
Harman was so alarmed by what she had heard, she drafted a short letter to the CIA’s general counsel to express “profound” concerns with the tactic — going so far as to ask if waterboarding had been personally “approved by the president.”
According to the Pelosi confidant, Sheehy told Pelosi about the briefing — and later informed Pelosi, the newly elected minority leader, that Harman was drafting a protest letter. Pelosi told Sheehy to tell Harman that she agreed with the letter,
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Nancy’s logic is tortured.
The lying, cheating Liberal loon is at it again.
Pelosi should be knitting, not telling the nation what to do.
Nice try Pelosi-nocchio. But it doesn’t explain you lying through your teeth saying you hadn’t heard they were using these techniques. Get lost you SF bimbo.
This makes my kidneys fail.
All these pious denials of knowledge and complicity. We are also to believe that Pelosi et al. wouldn’t waterboard Rush and us in a N.Y. minute.
Pelosi Lie of the Day.
She believes we are idiots.
Hoekstra is not letting go.
Bravo Sierra...
“I was going to protest it, I really was!”
What a sad joke of a woman.
WE may not be, but the people who elect her are.
As the Church Lady would say: “Isn’t that special?”
...The CIA is gonna have fun with her.
That this woman has been elevated to the third in line to the Presidency is hilarious? Sickening? Reason to doubt my sanity?
“didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels,”
More likely because she stuck her wet finger in the breeze and detected a strong anti-terrorist sentiment in the country.
It should have been clear to her that the advanced interrogation techniques weren’t in any legislative channels. The CIA was doing it. I hope the Dems in her district don’t buy her crap. But I am afraid they will. Like John Kerry’s I was against the war, before I was for it, but then I didn’t fund it” nonsense. But it works with Dems.
Being a Dem means never having to say you’re sorry.
I forget, is this version 3.0 or version 6.0?
“Being a Dem means never having to say you’re sorry.”
Being a Dem means never having to say you’re the sorry, stupid, lying SOB you really are!
Fixed it.
Has everyone seen this one?
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,519802,00.html
Holder Was Aware of Clinton-Era Renditions
Monday , May 11, 2009
quick trip around Hannity’s America...
Investigating Holder
As Eric Holder decides whether or not to prosecute former Bush officials, he now finds himself facing some tough questions of his own.
Thursday, Senate Republicans questioned Holder on whether or not he was aware renditions were used during his tenure as Bill Clinton’s deputy attorney general. Renditions is a practice used by the CIA to transport prisoners to other countries that some say sanction torture.
So did Eric Holder in his previous role have knowledge that torture was taking place?
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SENATOR RICHARD SHELBY, R-ALA.: During your tenure as the deputy attorney general of the United States — ‘97 to 2001 — did you know about these renditions?
U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: Yes. No, I’d have to look back. I don’t know the exact numbers that Senator Alexander...
SHELBY: No. Did you know about them? I didn’t say how many.
HOLDER: I certainly know that generally that there were renditions that were occurring. I can’t honestly say that I knew about specific interrogation techniques that were being used at that time.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Senator Lamar Alexander also questioned Mr. Holder on this subject and essentially put him on notice.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER, R-TENN.: But I think you can see the line of my inquiry which is if we’re going to ask lawyers who were asked to give legal opinions — we’re going to investigate them, jeopardize their careers, second-guess them, look back. Then where does that stop?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
The attorney general said he plans to get back to the committee with exactly what he knew about Clinton-era renditions. I’m not sure how he plans to disown the practice, considering President Obama himself has continued to authorize its use.
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