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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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To: BigBobber

Yes, Pelois is a brain dead partisan loser and every Democrat knows it.


61 posted on 05/13/2009 8:59:03 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: Sub-Driver; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Gee, Mr. Peabody... Did you hear? Nancy Pelosi developed a time machine to go back and make her lies about water boarding actually become the truth!

Nonsense, Sherman... she's been using a copy of our Wayback Machine that has been around for better than forty years.

Then how come... they are just now talking about it?

It is Algore's fault... He was keeping the Wayback suppressed to keep his Global Warming Scam from being found out.

Golly! What... happened?

I used mine copy here to prove his Global Warming Theory... is all hogwash.

That's... why?

Well, that... and I peed all over his shoes.

62 posted on 05/13/2009 9:01:57 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Tell the truth you skank!

Clinton made the same mistake...assuming that he was smarter than everyone else and could lie his way out of a problem.

If Nancy said "I knew about this, hated it, but sometimes distasteful things need to be done to save American Children"...or something of the sort.... it's a non-story, or at worst, people yell about it until the next tempest in a teapot comes along.

I tell ya, the only thing keeping the Republican party afloat is the fact that the Dems are all idiots. If a half decent leader emerges amongst them, the GOP will be relegated to 2nd banana for a long, long time.

63 posted on 05/13/2009 9:21:59 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Sub-Driver

64 posted on 05/13/2009 9:26:26 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: norwaypinesavage

She would be the obvious cure for the “4 hour problem” associated with Viagra.


65 posted on 05/13/2009 9:28:38 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’d bet Pelosi is so ticked at Hoyer she could chew nails. LOL!


66 posted on 05/13/2009 9:35:46 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Bender2

Not his shoes...


67 posted on 05/13/2009 9:55:19 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m telling you that Pelosi sleep with eyes open because of all the Botox..


68 posted on 05/13/2009 9:57:27 AM PDT by ducks1944 (GOD Bless the USA .)
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To: ken5050

Even dumba$$ me picked up on that. This should be pushed into the sunlight more by us, on all posts/sites. Thanks to you for bringing it up.


69 posted on 05/13/2009 10:12:19 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (My Tee shirt for 2009-2012:" I voted FRED don't you wish you did")
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To: Bender2

OMG props Mr Peabody LOLOLOL!

I miss those cartoons LOL!


70 posted on 05/13/2009 10:40:14 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Sub-Driver

bump


71 posted on 07/02/2022 7:52:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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