Under a barrage of questioning, Pelosi adamantly insisted that she was not aware that waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques were being used on terrorism suspects.
"Yes I am saying the CIA was misleading the Congress ... I am telling you they told me they approved these and said they wanted to use them but said they were not using waterboarding," she said.
Now this is after she has already stated that all they told her that was they "had a legal finding" allowing the use of water boarding. The problem is that the CIA KEEPS RECORDS, and they were quick to dispute this charge, which led to another reporter question, and yet another explanation from Pellosi:
Pelosi said she was briefed only once on the interrogation methods in September 2002. She acknowledged that her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, informed her about another briefing five months later in which Bush officials said waterboarding was being used on CIA terror detainee Abu Zubaydah.Ok, so when it comes to the thing you've objected to low these many years, water boarding, you "forgot" and had to be reminded by your aide that, "oh ya", they did tell me once, this one time, on one occasion. Uh huh.
Pelosi said she supported a letter drafted by Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee who also attended the briefing in February 2003, and sent to the Bush administration, raising concerns over the technique.
When pressed as to why she didn't then SIGN HER NAME to a letter she "supported", she closed her case with: "Objecting to torture techniques was not my place, not my job. My job was getting a majority of Democrats elected to the congress."
Let me just skip the lecture on what your primary job is - representing the people of CA, and just note TORTURE! You're telling us that what you thought was bonafied TORTURE was being committed by the CIA under the blessing of the President of the United States and objecting to that was quote: "not your job?"
Let me tell you what else "won't be your job" soon enough: Speaker of the House of Representatives. And your own Party is going to see to it.
This is simple. What this will ultimately end in is releasing the minutes of that briefing. Hell, we're releasing a lot more then that. And then we will see her "not seek" reelection by her peers for Speaker. And for that she will have a greatful nation ...
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