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Bad morning for Pelosi
The Hill ^

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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To: Sub-Driver

The Dems have a Decision to make......Do they keep the incompetent former committee head at her even MORE Important leader of the House role.....where her Obvious Lies can bring down Approval ratings Lower than they are now.....or do they make a change in replacing Pelosi ?


21 posted on 05/13/2009 7:31:25 AM PDT by 4Speed
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To: FourPeas

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

LOL


22 posted on 05/13/2009 7:31:38 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, but who is going to do anything about any of this? It will just be another example of a Democrat politician caught in an obvious lie/crime/transgression/violation/corruption, but with no ramifications whatsoever (beyond a several day coverage on Fox News).


23 posted on 05/13/2009 7:31:38 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: Sub-Driver

Somewhere in Texas, Jim Wright is shaking his head and chuckling.


24 posted on 05/13/2009 7:31:55 AM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver
This made my day too, but I don't think anything will be done about it..These things the criminal democrats do some how gets lost and besides it was all Bushes fault he made her lie..(sarcasm)
25 posted on 05/13/2009 7:32:01 AM PDT by PLD
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To: brownsfan

really? you take a Pelosi?

I refer to it as “making an image of Muhamed”.


26 posted on 05/13/2009 7:32:38 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: brownsfan

BRB- I have to dig some Pelosi clumps out of my kitty litter box...


27 posted on 05/13/2009 7:33:52 AM PDT by Mr. K (physically unabel to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: Puppage

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

It may serve to derail their silly little spanky leftist trials of waterboarding however. That itself is a benefit. Anything we can do to get the idiot press to move off of obammy’s two approved messages (”it took a long time for this problem to develop” or “ we inherited...”) ENOUGH!


28 posted on 05/13/2009 7:34:16 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: dfwgator
Waterboarding isn’t torture, period!

I couldn't agree more.

29 posted on 05/13/2009 7:34:39 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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To: eureka!
Michelle cringes every time she hears that Nancy is the “most powerful” woman in Washington.I wonder if she told *O* to get rid of her! ;-)
30 posted on 05/13/2009 7:34:59 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I will not be silenced.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama wants Pelosi gone ...


31 posted on 05/13/2009 7:35:17 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: ravingnutter

“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.”

I love it. The more these idiots live in their moronic past dreams of bloodlust (tilting at windmills), the better we’ll be as we focus on the future. Go America!


32 posted on 05/13/2009 7:36:33 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: mkjessup

thats ‘Ft Worthless Jim’..


33 posted on 05/13/2009 7:37:38 AM PDT by rahbert
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To: raptor29

“It will just be another example of a Democrat politician caught in an obvious lie/crime/transgression/violation/corruption, but with no ramifications whatsoever”

Drip, drip, drip - America will finally (and it) waking up to this corrupt indecency wrought upon us by the socialist agitators and anarchists. This will happen with or without the press.

By the way - 65% think that Daily Newspapers will be dead in 10 years:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/65_say_daily_papers_will_be_gone_in_ten_years


34 posted on 05/13/2009 7:38:34 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: Tarpon

imho, any civil war among the dims is good news. Couple that with the idiot press reflexive tendencies to return to their professions about one time/year, and who knows, we may finally have something here? Just trying to stay optimistic.


35 posted on 05/13/2009 7:40:35 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is that from “Brazil”? What a great movie.


36 posted on 05/13/2009 7:41:39 AM PDT by DManA
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To: MrB

“really? you take a Pelosi?”

Not to get too graphic, but it depends on the day, if you get my drift.


37 posted on 05/13/2009 7:42:07 AM PDT by brownsfan (Kool aid comes in two new flavors: Hope and Change.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Remember Nancy - you laugh too hard, you cry.


38 posted on 05/13/2009 7:42:21 AM PDT by dead
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To: Sub-Driver

One bad morning for Pelosi?.....Tell the truth you skank! You knew waterboarding was being used and yet you deny it? It was easy to climb on the prosecute Bush Bus with the ACLU but I guess you forgot you knew about the waterboarding! You libtards are a little to quick and you especially look very stupid now! F.U. Pelosi!.....


39 posted on 05/13/2009 7:42:23 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sub-Driver


The lastest photograph of House Speaker Pelosi after a recent facelift.

40 posted on 05/13/2009 7:43:21 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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