excuse me! for being so! abrasive! LOL!
In April, she said “We were not told” about the program at any briefing
This tramp is lying so much. I think I can see Pinocchio nose growing out of her a**! LOL!
House Speaker NANCY PELOSI said unequivocally in February: “I can say flat out, they never told us that these enhancement interrogations were being used.”
In April, she said “We were not told” about the program at any briefing. But a CIA memo released May 6 flatly contradicts those claims, stating CIA personnel gave Pelosi “a description of the particular EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) that had been employed.” That briefing was in September 2002.
Pelosi now admits that an aide told her about the interrogation techniques in 2003, but she still maintains that the CIA didn’t tell her in 2002 that waterboarding had been used.
On May 14, she escalated her charge, claiming the CIA deliberately misled legislators. That prompted several Republicans – including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former presidential candidate and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Fox News commentator Sean Hannity – to call for Pelosi’s resignation.
Is Pelosi misleading Americans and then recklessly charging the CIA with deliberate misconduct to cover her tracks, as some Republicans are suggesting?
Or is it the CIA memo that’s false, perhaps put forth in an effort to claim there was tacit bipartisan approval for acts that some Democrats now say should be prosecuted as criminal.
Evidence is sketchy. So far, no recordings, verbatim transcripts or contemporary notes of Pelosi’s 2002 briefing have surfaced, and for all we know, none may even exist.
All that’s known publicly are conflicting, after-the-fact accounts. So we simply can’t determine exactly what the CIA told Pelosi in 2002 or exactly when she became aware of what was going on.
One thing is clear: Pelosi now concedes she knew about the CIA program – including the waterboarding – far earlier than she had led the public to believe. Her calls for a “Truth Commission” come six years after she now says she first learned about the CIA enhanced interrogation program.
