Speaker Pelosi Claims CIA Misled Her

Q: How do you know Nancy Pelosi is lying?
A: Her lips are moving

Sure thing, Nancy.
Boy, don’t Democrats really hate it when the CIA bites them in backside?
LMAO

Oh Nancy, surely your Italian parents taught you that if you spit in the air it will hit you in the face. But did you listen? Apperently not. Arrogance will do that to you.

“Congress and the American people now know that contrary opinions within the Executive Branch concluded that these interrogation techniques were not legal. However, those opinions were not provided to Congress.”
I like Nancy and the idea that women and non-leading males try to have a broader role in government. But there is a fundamental difference, which I think might have something to do with sex or some fundamental psychological or biological attribute, when members of congress do not realize that they are supposed to supply their own opinions for themselves.

If she’s telling the truth, she’s producing some startling bad body language and nervous verbal cues. . . Perhaps she’s just not that comfortable with telling the truth.

I love America’s new image under the Obama Administration.
I’m sure our enemies like it too.

Good grief!
It’s one nightmare after another since 1-20-09.
If this chaos makes us safer I would like to know how.

RIGHT WINGERS ON BOARD
You would think you Love Pelosi afterall Water Boarding is Not torture Right? so If she Knew she Sided with your Beloved Bush so whats up with the Bashing?

Obama’s complete lack of leadership caused this.
He should have done what is best for our country/CIA/troops instead of trying to please his base.
The left wanted to humiliate Bush/Cheney and Obama obliged.

FOGHORN
Im not calling her anything Im Just asking you Right wingers Why The Bashing you Should be Happy she Went along with Bush and Cheney This Benifits you so why Bash

Arent you Proud FOGHORN Whats with the Pelosi Bashing you should Be Happy she worked With Bush in a Bi-Partisan Manner no?
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Angie PA: Mrs. Pelosi did nothing wrong in 2002 or 2003. She worked to defend this country. She should be proud of her efforts; not denying them.

“This Benifits you so why Bash’
You miss the point. It is her hypocrisy that is offensive.

Mad
If she did Nothing Wrong then Why Call for Her Impeachment?

I can’t believe the Republican are attempting to drag down House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Would it be because of her asking for a truth commission?
Wait I can believe I’m posting for Nancy or spending this much time checking out all the stories on Tapper’s Blog?
I guess I’m a fan of Tappers political punch.
I do like Chris’s Fix on the Washington Post as we can post links and Sometimes Chris will make us all feel welcome by saying “Welcome …”
Tapper Drudge put a link to Chris of the Fix on the front Page about Nancy. I going to check out your latest article. Then visit Chris.
Before I forget -
Hang in there Nancy!

But Wait Didnt the CIA Mislead Bush with Wmds, Mushroom Clouds, Saddam Was Linked to Bin Laden to Justify The Iraq War?

Angie PA, I’ve never called for her impeachment. I believe she did the right thing to defend our country back in 2002 and 2003.

My Question
Did the CIA Mislead the Bush Adminstration On Wmds and Links of Saddam And Laden
Or did they not?
Why did we go to War in Iraq?

So, let’s see, at first, she says she didn’t know a thing, but weeks later, after proof comes out that she did, she changes her mind and now says she was misled. Something smells here, and it’s coming from San Francisco!

How long has Pelosi been pushing to prosecute Bush et al for waterboarding while hiding her own knowledge and complicity? Perhaps the CIA will offer up some evidence.

Who lied about the Iraqi War? Who lied about WMD? Who actually did the torture?Who tried to cover up the prisoner abuse in Iraq? WHO WHO WHO!!!! Stay focused……Whether Pelosi knew anything about it is not the problem! We(Bush, Cheney)waterboarded these guys hundreds of time which is torture!

Can’t find full transcript of today’s briefing, but I recall her saying that she was told other EIT was being used, and that waterboarding was legal, but hadn’t been used yet. If true, then she admits to knowing about “torture” and doing nothing about the 9/10 techniques that are not waterboarding, but still considered by many to be torture.
Love the update re Graham and Rockefeller…two guys who were also briefed, and are next on the firing line of: “What did they know/when did they know it/WHY DIDN’T THEY DO SOMETHING?”
-Pelosi briefed 9/5/02
-Pushed Intel Appropriations on 9/25/02 even though is specifically funded CIA purchase of prison operation supplies
-Graham briefed 9/27/02
-Rockefeller briefed 2/4/03
In the interim…House/Sen Intel Com had over 24 closed door hearings where they could have voiced concerns to intel people face to face. None did.
They knew. They told us they were misled, try to play that card again, but the facts are there.

===Who lied about the Iraqi War? ===
No one.
===Who lied about WMD?===
The CIA?
===Who actually did the torture?===
No one.
===Who tried to cover up the prisoner abuse in Iraq?===
No one.
=== WHO WHO WHO!!!! ===
Are you an owl?
===Stay focused……===
On what?
===Whether Pelosi knew anything about it is not the problem!===
Sure it is. It’s the lies that get you every time.
===We(Bush, Cheney)waterboarded these guys hundreds of time which is torture!===
So Obama is protecting torturers? Looks like it’s time to get nasty with Obama. If he can’t uphold the laws of the land, he should be put in the same category with Bush/Cheney. Right?

Pelosi knew about “torture” and still pushed to fund it just days later in the House Appropriations Bill.
She’s complicit.

Axey: According to your logic Pelosi didn’t do anything wrong because nothing happened! No waterboarding, no torture, You can’t have it it both ways.

Liars always get caught!!
Nancy is no exception to the rule.
Burn Baby Burn!!

Oh dear, Nancy Pelosi lied us into war!

I notice that when Drudge links Tapper or Chris of the Fix from the Washington Post up it turns into a hockey fight.
“Fuels Fire on Interrogations” by Chris Cillizza (Washington Post)
From Chris’s Article …
– Asked whether she was accusing the CIA of lying to her during a 2002 briefing on the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” Pelosi said: “Yes, misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.”
Tapper the Whole Country was mislead.
This story is a distraction from the bread and butter issues that Americas care about right now. The Card Card issue can effect everyone right now, helping many by the end of the summer.
–”The Speaker has had way too many stories on this issue,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) at a press conference moments ago. He added that he has “not one doubt” that interrogations of detainees were conducted “within the law” and that he was opposed to the idea of a truth commission.
Tapper Minority Leader John Boehner added that he has “not one doubt” that interrogations of detainees were conducted “within the law”. and that he was opposed to the idea of a truth commission.
The Truth Commission – Republicans don’t want this and are ready to drag Nancy down to make sure it doesn’t happen?
When Minority Leader John Boehner says “Within the Law” a message to the courts? Majority of Americans have read the how Bushes Lawyers were Manipulating the Constitution so they could say “Within the Law” for times like this.
Even though I disagree with them I respect Bob Brooks and George Will’s opinion. I’m can’t stand pundits like Rush or Bill Kristol. I’m curious what Bob Brooks and George Wills will have to say about this on Sunday, I sure millions of Americans are thinking of Sunday too about now – well the political junkies on both sides anyway. Cokie Roberts,Eleanor Clift and Frank Shields better be at the top of their game this Sunday!
Sometimes the news is so negative coming from the Republican side that I want relief so I’m heading over to Jon Stewart’s site. The comedians role in a Democracy is just as important Tapper! At least we have our own Will Rodgers for our times!

How could she remember anything in a drug induced state of unawareness.. slip some truth serum pills into her daily regimen.

Angie in Pa wrote:
“Did the CIA Mislead the Bush Adminstration On Wmds and Links of Saddam And Laden
“Or did they not?
“Why did we go to War in Iraq?”
First go back and read the statements of leading Democrats (including President Clinton) back in 1998. They said that Iraq had WMDs back then. In fact Congress passed the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act which called for regime change.
Now then as for why we invaded Iraq, that’s because Saddam Hussein failed for 12 years to comply with EVERY condition of the 1991 Cease Fire. One of the conditions was for Saddam Hussein to prove that he destroyed the WMDs if he no longer had them. Saddam Hussein wanted his neighbors to believe he still had WMDs so he chose to not comply. In 2002 the U.N. Security Council issued its final ultimatum. Yet once it was clear that they had no intentions of following through on their ultimatum, President Bush issued his own. France, Germany and Russia had convinced Saddam Hussein that the United States would not invade so he called our “bluff.” It was no bluff. When the ultimatum deadline passed, President Bush stayed true to his word. President Bush rescinded the 1991 Cease Fire and resumed the original 1991 Gulf War.

I am not a friend of Pelosi by any means….but if she says she was deceived by the Bush Administration get in line….The whole country was deceived and now we are slowly crawling our way out of the massive hole they put us in…While Pelosi’s credibility may be low the Bush administration is below zero…

Nancy hasn’t learned that when you are in a hole…Stop digging……Even with her lie that “they said they were thinking about torture and hadn’t done it”, is an admission to being a War Criminal:
“if they knew, or had information which should have enabled them to conclude in the circumstances at the time, that he was committing or about to commit such a breach and if they did not take all feasible measures within their power to prevent or repress the breach.”
(“AP I”) of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
“Or about to commit”…She is toast…indict, prosecute, sentence (Under US law the max sentence is death)

We all know the CIA would NEVER lie, right? So if anyone lied, it MUST be Pelosi.
By the way, any of you Limbaugh-Lovers interested in purchasing some Brooklyn Bridge stock?

Release all the memos, not just the ones that make the Bush administration look bad. We know they were bad we don’t need anymore proof. If Nancy says she was lied to lets see the proof.

Nancy Pelosi is execrably disingenuous.

I meant Conservatives.

Detainees were tortured not to protect the US, but to find excuses to justify the invasion of Iraq is what is coming out in the news now. This came out in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s review into detainee abuse. You jokers think for one second the CIA wouldn’t mislead members of Congress? The entire country got snookered at an expense that cannot be repaid.

I don’t trust any politician because they have lost touch with reality. Something just does not seem right when two Senators also question the CIA’s account.
Sen. Bob Graham said that when he asked the CIA when he had been briefed on the program, the CIA gave him the dates of four briefings, two in April 2002 and two in September 2002, when they claimed they had briefed him about the program. But after Graham consulted his own records, he pointed out that on two of those dates, he had not attended any briefing. After Graham pointed this out to the CIA, they conceded their own dates were incorrect.
Graham then went on to repeat his claim that he had no recollection of being told about waterboarding Zubaydah or anything else about extreme interrogation.
In addition to repeating his earlier assertion that he would have remembered something that dramatic, Graham contextualized the briefing the CIA gave him–which occurred right in the middle of Graham’s complaints about the inaccuracy of the Iraq NIE
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who was chairman of the intelligence committee in 2002, is the latest Democrat to seriously question the accuracy of the CIA memo detailing Congressional briefings on waterboarding and enhanced interrogations.
The agency has said it stands behind the document, but CIA director Leon Panetta said he couldn’t vouch for the absolute accuracy of the document in a cover letter released to reporters.

‘Good grief!
It’s one nightmare after another since 1-20-09.
If this chaos makes us safer I would like to know how.’ -millie | May 14, 2009 2:11:03 PM
It’s funny to note though that it’s the 20% on the right sowing the chaos and discord. With Cheney taunting terrorists to attack again, kooks searching for Obama’s ‘real’ birth certificate, Republicans disagreeing for the sake of disagreement, Republican governors threatening to leave the union, Limbaugh and his ilk hoping the president (ergo the country) fails, and the whole crowd making tortured arguments in order to fulfill their own prophecies of doom, it’s not surprising that you can’t see how we’re as safe or safer than under the previous admin because you’re one of those hoping for failure; you want us to fail so you can be right. Real patriotic, my friends.

Da Truth—”If the CIA lied (which I doubt)”…you’re kidding right? …right?

What is the evidence?
Posted by: Sigmonde
I said it is all coming out now and was in the Senate Armed Services Report. I first read about it in relation to our torturing Zubaydah. I read about it in a UK paper this morning with quotes from CIA personnel. Now others are talking about it.
This is from tonight -
“Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was questioned on the issue today in two TV interviews. Speaking to CNN, Whitehouse allowed: “I have heard that to be true.” To MSNBC, he noted that there was additional evidence of this in the Senate Armed Services committee report, and from Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell. “This thing is just getting deeper and deeper,” said Whitehouse, noting that if it were true, it would significantly bolster the case for prosecutions.” (Roth)

People like Nancy Pelosi give politicians a bad name. I’m a dem but won’t even try to stick up for her.

“Congress and the American people now know that contrary opinions within the Executive Branch concluded that these interrogation techniques were not legal. However, those opinions were not provided to Congress.”
I have to illumninate this a little more. There are various frontiers in nature where man must define the order. The law, medicine, industry. These areas, among others, must be constantly maintained and adjusted, because nature is constantly encroaching and changing. To say that leaders in congress were not provided the correct legal opinion is to say that a physician was not provided a correct course of action from a textbook. Alarming to me that now congress believes, while they are not suited to maintain the limits of law on their own, yet they are suited to frame the limits of medicine?

“Check out Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Charles Duelfer stories today.”
Duelfer doesn’t cite Cheney’s office, but says two senior U.S. intelligence officials at the time tell that the suggestion to waterboard came from the Office of Vice President Cheney.
Duelfer says no waterboarding occurred. So, this looks like more smoke and mirrors to me and I will wait for Cheney to respond before jumping to any conclusions. You should too.

Pelosi should resign before they have to quarantine the whole House.

“Duelfer says no waterboarding occurred. So, this looks like more smoke and mirrors to me and I will wait for Cheney to respond before jumping to any conclusions. You should too.”
Cheney is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times.

A body language expert would have a field day looking at Nancy Pelosi at her presser today.

“Once again, Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times for this false information and where in the world did you get al-Dulaymi was not?”
Here’s some helpful info for you from Salon. The 83 waterboardings of Zabudayah is a different subject.
Salon: “In April 2003, U.S. forces captured an Iraqi official named Muhammed Khudayr al-Dulaymi, who had served in Saddam’s secret police, the Mukhabarat. Those unnamed officials said that upon learning of Dulaymi’s capture, the vice-president’s office proposed that CIA agents in Baghdad commence waterboarding him, in order to elicit information about a link between al-Qaida and Saddam.
Evidently that suggestion was not enforced by Charles Duelfer, the head of the Iraq Study Group who controlled Dulaymi’s interrogation.

Dubya and Cheney are the ones responsible for torture. Like all other Republicans they are criminals. I know the media would like to make it Pelosi’s fault, but it’s not. But she could fix this by supporting the prosecution of Dubya and Cheney.

Why is Ms Pelosi under fire,she was not the president nor vice president.The GOP is trying to divert attention from themselves.I want to know why BUSH<CHENEY<ROVE and the rest of the informed republicans are not on trial for their crimes.The American people were lied to what makes you think they did not lie to congress. It will be very interesting to hear what Colin Powell has to say about this matter.

cario131..Don’t deflect, this involved more than just the GOP..Pelosi was more than willing to stand by and see people prosecuted for the very thing she, if proven, was aware of and did not protest too in the name of saving herself and her career..Can’t get more cowardly than that in my opinion..

Scariest thing in the world is that this woman is third in line for the most powerful job in the world. Get her out, please.