The evidence is starting to pile up and it looks like Speaker Pelosi has some explaining to do. According to a report released by the Director of National Intelligence, Nancy Pelosi was given a detailed brief about the enhanced interrogation techniques used on Abu Zubaydah in September 2002. The meeting was described as a “Briefing on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) including use of EITs
on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of
particular EITs that had been employed.” This contradicts her claims that she wasn't told that EIT's were actually being used on enemy combatants.
From ABC NEWS The Point:
The report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, appears to contradict Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of waterboarding or other special interrogation tactics. Instead, she has said, she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques.
The report details a Sept. 4, 2002 meeting between intelligence officials and Pelosi, then-House intelligence committee chairman Porter Goss, and two aides. At the time, Pelosi was the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee.
The meeting is described as a “Briefing on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of particular EITs that had been employed.”
EITs stand for “enhanced interrogation techniques,” a classification of special interrogation tactics that includes waterboarding.
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