May 07 2009
Nancy Pelosi – Liar
Nancy Pelosi likes to pretend she is a stalwart, anti-war liberal. But the truth is she lies to the left in order to retain power and shove money into her personal coffers: Case in point: water-boarding known terrorists:
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.
In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered “EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah.” EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique.
It goes like this.
- CIA: We think these guys know something, but they aren’t giving up details. Could be another 9-11. We have these options, what do you think
- Congress/Pelosi: Damn! Looks like a good lead. Did you try all other options?
- CIA: Yeah, got some strong hints. But nothing we can act on. Last option, make his body think he is drowning.
- Congress/Pelosi: Will it produce results? Will it save American lives?
- CIA: Most definitely.
- Congress/Pelosi: Do it – report back.
This is the permission phase. Next comes the result phase:
- CIA: You would not believe what we learned once we put him/them through the procedure. We discovered a 2nd 9-11 plot (maybe more). It was aimed at LA.
- Congress/Pelosi: Do we have suspects, can we stop the attack?
- CIA: Yes and we believe we can.
Fast Forward:
- CIA: Yep, we got them and stopped another 9-11. We have more indications of possible attack, what do you propose?
- Congress/Pelosi: Thank God – those are my neighbors down in southern CA. I cannot thank you enough. Yes, we need to know what else is in the works. Please continue your efforts.
Will Pelosi and the Dems admit to this sequence of events? Depends if they are true Americans and truly thankful for the lives saved.
Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Pelosi, said the speaker was under the impression the techniques were legal and waterboarding was not used.
“As this document shows, the speaker was briefed only once, in September 2002,” he said. “The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not yet been used.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/07/report-pelosi-briefed-enhanced-interrogation-methods/
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I can’t tell from the memo if waterboarding had been used or not when Pelosi was briefed. But, clearly the possibility of “waterboarding” as a legal tool was discussed (I think Porter Goss said as much in an interview).
Jed Babbin has a good article on this with the actual briefing memo over at Human Events:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31784
The Torture of American Soldiers
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34730
The nutroots has their talking point this morning and are running with it.
Water boarding wasn’t ‘specifically mentioned’ in the line item for Pelosi, only ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’.
Another case of depending on how you define ‘is’.
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