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Bad morning for Pelosi
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Posted on 05/13/2009 7:18:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Bad morning for Pelosi @ 9:53 am by Eric Zimmermann

Two new developments in the "what did Pelosi know about waterboarding" series spell trouble for the Speaker.

First, CNN reports that an aide told Pelosi in February 2003 that waterboarding had been used on Abu Zubaydah. This contradicts Pelosi's assertion that she only knew about the legal rationale for waterboarding, not that it had been used.

Sheehy attended a briefing in which waterboarding was discussed in February 2003, with Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, who took over Pelosi's spot as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

This source says Pelosi didn't object when she learned that waterboarding was being used because she had not been personally briefed about it — only her aide had been told.

This looks pretty bad for Pelosi, as though she avoided any "personal briefing" to maintain deniability.

Second, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is now reluctantly admitting that Congressional hearings on the matter should include questions about what Pelosi knew.

The first of those hearings is today, a Senate Judiciary Committee that starts in, oh, about 5 minutes. The witness lineup today means the Pelosi issue probably won't take center stage, but that might change with future hearings.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 200302; 200905; abuzubaidah; abuzubayda; abuzubaydah; bleedingheartattack; democrats; eit; eits; harman; janeharman; pelosi; waterboarding; zawahiri; zubaidah; zubaydah
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Made my day....
1 posted on 05/13/2009 7:18:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

When is it ever a good morning to have a Pelosi?


2 posted on 05/13/2009 7:19:37 AM PDT by FourPeas (somewhere in Kenya, a village idiot is missing his sidekick)
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To: Sub-Driver

Such a disgusting disgrace. A raving radical liberal “progressive” (Marxist) DemoRat. They are the same.


3 posted on 05/13/2009 7:22:55 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Sub-Driver


4 posted on 05/13/2009 7:24:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: FourPeas

“When is it ever a good morning to have a Pelosi?”

I take a Pelosi every morning, then I shave and shower.


5 posted on 05/13/2009 7:24:22 AM PDT by brownsfan (Kool aid comes in two new flavors: Hope and Change.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hoyer smells blood.


6 posted on 05/13/2009 7:24:47 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: FourPeas

When you have difficult Pelosi, try fiber.


7 posted on 05/13/2009 7:25:35 AM PDT by Reagan69 (No Representation without Taxation !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One more face lift and she’ll have an orgasm everytime she sneezes.


8 posted on 05/13/2009 7:26:09 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, school and passport records.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What makes me happy is this adds just that much more stress to an already physically & mentally tortured body and “mind”!


9 posted on 05/13/2009 7:26:57 AM PDT by albie
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To: nufsed

LOL


10 posted on 05/13/2009 7:27:03 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Speaker Hoyer?


11 posted on 05/13/2009 7:28:13 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (No teleprompters were harmed in the creation of this post.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Two new developments in the "what did Pelosi know about waterboarding" series spell trouble for the Speaker

Let me be the first to say it....absolutely NOTHING will come of this. She will suffer no ill effects, IMHO.

12 posted on 05/13/2009 7:28:29 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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One more face lift and she’ll have an orgasm everytime she sneezes.

She's already sporting a goatee...

13 posted on 05/13/2009 7:28:34 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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The latest meme being thrown out for public consumption is that Bush broke the law because he failed to disclose the use of waterboarding to Democrats until six months after it was first deployed in 2002 on Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. Even if that doesn't fly, the Dems...at least the ones at DU...indicate that they are more than willing to throw Pelosi under the bus to get Bush and Cheney.
14 posted on 05/13/2009 7:29:12 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Sub-Driver
Second, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is now reluctantly admitting that Congressional hearings on the matter should include questions about what Pelosi knew.

The real question is whether or not they will do anything about the answers to the questions.

15 posted on 05/13/2009 7:29:28 AM PDT by Mind Freed ("Every man has the right to be a fool 5 minutes a day. Wisdom is not exceeding the limit.")
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To: Puppage

Waterboarding isn’t torture, period! So this shouldn’t even be worth having hearings over in the first place.


16 posted on 05/13/2009 7:30:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: MortMan

No photos, please.


17 posted on 05/13/2009 7:30:13 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, school and passport records.)
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To: Sub-Driver
LOL - just saw Pelosi standing next to O’Bama in a health care press briefing. She was blinking and nodding uncontrollably.
18 posted on 05/13/2009 7:30:56 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
"Hoyer smells blood."

Sure seems that way. That the press is on it also suggests that Hoyer has supporters in the WH--moving to change Speakers? Nancy is probably not a lot of fun to be around these days. ;^)

19 posted on 05/13/2009 7:30:59 AM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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To: Sub-Driver

A bad morning for Pelosi means a good morning for the Republic...


20 posted on 05/13/2009 7:31:01 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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