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Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 10:33:57 AM   
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WASHINGTON -- Under strong attack from Republicans,  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA and Bush administration of misleading her about waterboarding detainees in the war on terror and sharply rebutted claims she was complicit in its use.

"To the contrary ... we were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used," she told reporters, referring to a formal CIA briefing she received in the fall of 2002.

Pelosi said she subsequently learned that other lawmakers were told several months later by the CIA about the use of waterboarding.

"I wasn't briefed, I was informed that somebody else had been briefed about it," she said.

The House's top Democrat made her comments at a news conference where she was peppered with questions about her knowledge of a technique she and others have called torture. Republicans have insisted in recent weeks that Pelosi and other Democrats knew waterboarding was in use, but made no attempt to protest.

In a written response issued moments after Pelosi spoke, an official at the CIA neither disputed nor accepted the California Democrat's statements.

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 10:41:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		So she's known for some time that she was allegedly lied to by the CIA about a very contentious and high-profile issue, but she's just working it into the conversation now? I'll be interested in hearing how she responds to that when the reporters get around to asking her.

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 10:56:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Whether Pelosi 'knew' or not, wouldn't she have been bound by some kind of confidentiality agreement anyway?

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 10:56:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, why not just say, "Look, we were scared shitless in fall of 2002 by talk of mushroom clouds and sarin gas and briefcase bombs, and so, yeah, we were ready to okay damn near anything to safeguard U.S. citizens"?

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 11:03:03 AM   
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According to the text of the article, she is trying to claim that it was the CIA who misled her.

This is the probably fifth time she's changed her story now.


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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 11:09:20 AM   
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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 11:58:35 AM   
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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 2:24:32 PM   
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quote:

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According to the text of the article, she is trying to claim that it was the CIA who misled her.

This is the probably fifth time she's changed her story now.



She can't tap dance fast enough to get out of the way of this train.
"I was told they CAN use torture, but was never told they DID use torture" seems to be the latest version.
Is that supposed to be an excuse?
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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 4:02:30 PM   
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So she's known for some time that she was allegedly lied to by the CIA about a very contentious and high-profile issue, but she's just working it into the conversation now? I'll be interested in hearing how she responds to that when the reporters get around to asking her.


I agree with this. If she knew a few months after the CIA spoke to her that waterboarding was taking place, and was unhappy with that, she should have spoke up sooner.

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 4:05:27 PM   
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Whether Pelosi 'knew' or not, wouldn't she have been bound by some kind of confidentiality agreement anyway?


If thats the case, surely she should have said "Yes I knew but was bound by confidentiality" ?

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 4:16:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Brilliant Ms. Pelosi!  You have gotten yourself into a pissing contest with the CIA! 

Where is that special prosecutor when you need him?

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 6:18:18 PM   
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Yeah Special Prosecutor!!

It`a obvious that it was bush admin officials at CIA who fibbed.

We need to see the transcripts.

We know that bush tried to destroy anti-torture memos.

Why wouldn`t they lie about this?

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 6:40:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		"In a testimony that could bolster Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA misled her during briefings on detainee interrogations, former Senator Bob Graham insisted on Thursday that he too was kept in the dark about the use of waterboarding, and called the agency's records on these briefings "suspect."

In an interview with the Huffington Post, the former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman said that approximately a month ago, the CIA provided him with false information about how many times and when he was briefed on enhanced interrogations."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/14/graham-cia-gave-me-false_n_203683.html

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 6:54:43 PM   
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Color me shocked.



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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 6:58:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well ,someone`s lie`n.....

We`ll see who blinks first.

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 7:31:51 PM   
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Democrats at war against the CIA.

Who couldn't have predicted this?


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Well ,someone`s lie`n.....

We`ll see who blinks first.


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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 7:36:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just a few bad apples...bush apples.

She said the record will back her story.

She wants to investigate.I say yeah!

This is a sideshow in the cheney magical history tour.

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 7:39:30 PM   
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quote:

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This is a sideshow in the cheney magical history tour.


Isn't that the truth - meanwhile the real criminals walk free.

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 9:03:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		       So let me see if I have this straight.  Pelosi is claiming that all this talk of the Democrats being complicit in the use of "torture" is a distraction from the Democrats putting all the blame on the Republicans?

       God, I wish San Francisco would fire her ass.

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RE: Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding - 5/14/2009 9:19:56 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

"In a testimony that could bolster Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA misled her during briefings on detainee interrogations, former Senator Bob Graham insisted on Thursday that he too was kept in the dark about the use of waterboarding, and called the agency's records on these briefings "suspect."

In an interview with the Huffington Post, the former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman said that approximately a month ago, the CIA provided him with false information about how many times and when he was briefed on enhanced interrogations."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/14/graham-cia-gave-me-false_n_203683.html


Pray tell, let me see if I understand this clearly.

This government flunky claims that the Central Intelligence Agency dissembled to him how often they met with him and what they said to him?

This, peons, is just one example of why Democracy doesn’t work.

< Message edited by ElitistBastard -- 5/14/2009 9:21:51 PM >

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