What Did She Know And When Did She Know It?... The Evidence Is Mounting

The evidence continues to mount that Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D), was lying when she claimed that she was never told about waterboarding. This time, the evidence comes from someone on the Democratic side of the aisle. According to a Washington Post article, a top aide to Pelosi attended a classified CIA briefing in which waterboarding was discussed in 2003. I just can't imagine that this aide would have kept quiet and not discussed the contents of the briefing with Pelosi. On top of that, GOP Congressman Pete Hoekstra was present at those meetings and has requested that detailed notes of the briefings be released to the public. I'm not so sure this is what the White House had in mind when they decided to selectively release some of the CIA interrogation memos.

From the Hot Air blog:

Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to evade responsibility for her role in approving the use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques took another hit today in the Washington Post — and this time the fire comes from her side of the aisle.  Pete Hoekstra upped the ante as well, demanding the release of precise minutes of Congressional briefings, and Leon Panetta has promised to make them available, at least to Capitol Hill.

Pelosi’s attempt to weasel onto Harman’s objection fails when one looks at the briefing notes.  Both Pelosi and Sheehy attended a briefing on September 4, 2002, five months before Harman attended her first briefing.  That 9/02 briefing specifically covered EITs and their use on Abu Zubaydah.  Harman raised her objection in 2003, not in 2002, as she had yet to attend one of the EIT briefings.

Comments

[James Carr]

I, for one, am shocked..., SHOCKED, I say, to see that lying is going on in this establishment.