Top Intel Republican: Pelosi Has Lost ‘Credibility’ on Interrogation Tactics

Somehow Obama will throw her under the bus.

“Throw her under the bus?” Sarah Palin is to the Republican Party as Nancy Pelosi is to the Democratic Party. They’d both be a heck of a lot better off without them.

Pelosi HAD credibility???? On April 25 2009 Porter Goss had an article in the Washington Post that looks like she was on board with them at the time!

i think she needs to consult with hilary on how to dodge sniper fire.she should step down. we need the truth commision….i think we will be surprised how informed and compliant the democrats really were. i think the american people need to know more of the truth. all the reason why obama doesnt want to go there.

The whole Obama Administration lacks credibility.

I agree Pelosi Should Go SHE WAS THE ONE THAT STOOD IN THE WAY OF BUSH BEING IMPEACHED!

We’ve heard this woman speak time and time again. Is anybody really surprised?

Come on lets have a full blown investigation. What did she know and when did she know it. Remember it is the cover up that counts more than the actual issue. I can see the NYT front page now “PELOSI KNEW!”

The speaker of the house must not lie! Throw the scumbag out

Nancy Pelosi is a disgrace. She talks about bipartisanship and she’s the farthest thing from it. She’s not even partisan…she for NANCY PELOSI and that’s it. She’s a power-hungry disappointment who, I hope, loses her next election. Her mantra is “we won…we’re in charge” and she doesn’t care if what they pass benefits the country or not…”we won…we’re in charge”. GET HER OUT OF OFFICE. TERM LIMITS FOR THESE PEOPLE!!!!

Marco I’m 100% with you. Obama is nothing but a puppet to Piglosi. She can throw him under the bus in a second. Everyone in DC knows that she is a vindictive B. Those who had crossed her got thrown under the bus quick.We can compare her to the AntiChrist 666.And we know the devil is a liar….

The whole US government is corrupt, including the guy from chicago running the racket. At least Bush and Cheney were up front about doing anything they wanted and just got all the losers in congress to change the laws they did not want to follow.

Pelosi and congress are a clear and present danger. They are the domestic enemy that we must defend against.

This entire article is based on a single sentence description of a meeting six and a half years ago? And waterboarding is not mentioned? And the CIA director himself doubts the accuracy of this memo? How can this be news?

She had credability? When? Give me Newt any day. I did not agree with him on many issues but he was at least consistant and stood his ground.

well there is someone we can beleve Leon Panetta OBAMA MAN he will say anything the Democratic want him to say
she was there and she was told she never said it was worng I don’t know anyone that would believe Pigiosi

Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., said an intelligence community report to Congress this week clearly demonstrates that Pelosi was told about “enhanced interrogation techniques” in a September 2002 briefing conducted by intelligence officials.
“The record now is clear: She was briefed on enhanced interrogation techniques,” Hoekstra said. “The fundamental point is, she knew there were enhanced interrogation techniques going on, and she did nothing to stop them
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The CIA openly admits that it just does not know what the briefing(s) entailed.
So, this means that Hoekstra, a Rush wanna be, just does not have a clue as to what he is talking about. But, then that is typical of Republicans. They cannot control the legislative process, though will of the people, so rather than be constructive, they are destructive like spoiled little brats.

“Don’t tread on me”!!!! I love how libs get worried and upset when real Americans say this. I believe they are really worried that we might ALL stop paying our taxes and then they will not have any money for their plans. Oh wait, they don’t have enough now, they just print more. Don’t tread on me!!

Republicans are just trying to put the heat on her and take it off themselves for their failed policies the last 8 years. Big cry-babies is what they are. They had a bad plan that didn’t work and have nothing new to offer so what else is new?

Frankly, I don’t care if Pelosi “knew” or not. She’s just a politician’s politician, and a terrible Speaker of the House.

Perhaps a formal hearing should be called, and Madame Speaker should have to testify under oath!

so who should be the next speaker of the house? i like max bacus of montana.

I don’t care if she knew about it or not. I don’t care if she approved or not. I do care that she lied about it.

That’s the problem with lying. You just never know who is lurking around the corner to prove that you’ve lied. Politicians should know that no matter who they are, they cannot change history.

This entire article is based on a single sentence description of a meeting six and a half years ago? And waterboarding is not mentioned? And the CIA director himself doubts the accuracy of this memo? How can this be news?
Posted by: saulxiic | May
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You know, I got to thinking the same thing. THIS is proof that she lied? I have no loyalty to Pelosi or anything but I thought the real issue was who authorized and requested torture? Not who got briefed that torture might be utilized. Pelosi has no power to authorize anything. They could have told her out and out that it was torture and she couldn’t have done a heck of a lot of anything about it other than, what? Blow the whistle? Who do you think, in that Republican Congress would have listened to her? She’d have been crucified as a traitor anyway.
All of this is an attempt at deflection away from Cheney, Bybee, Yoo and co.
A shame…Republicans used to be MASTERS at trickery. They’re just so clumsy now!

She done nothing to stop them? What about everyone else?? The republicans controlled the courts, the house, the senate, and the oval office. Kind of like a democrat being on a bus full of republicans and the bus drivers a republican. Her destination was completely out of her control. This one belongs to republicans no matter how much dirt they throw at some one else.

Watch the eyes, she sure starts blinking when shes pushed. She is definitely a big liar. If Obama doesn’t let her go, he’ll be an embarrassment too. The world is watching us and laughing at us. Who said, they would destroy US from within?Maybe Osama Obama.
Posted by: Carol in Alabama
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Are you kidding me? Pelosi owns Obama. He would not be president if it wasn’t for her, Reid, Dean and all the other pigs up there that decided the only way to win elections was ruthless under handedness. The democratic party is no longer the party of Clinton. We are talking left wing loooooons.

rightbehind …Cheney is the one wanting info released that no one else wants released and that includes Pelosi and Obama. My guess is that if he is going down ,he is taking the rest of the people that knew about this with him.

Don’t mention Ron Paul or Janet and the DHS will get you.

Why should we expect her to be any different from the other criminals in congress and on Wall Street.

This lady is Mrs. Impossible!!!!Unbelievable character, I just hate this lady. She better be not opening her mouth, full of garbbage.

If you believe that anyone but the chosen few in the Bush administration KNEW just what was happening with torture you are forgetting a lot of the very recent past. A few so-called rotten apples were tried and convicted for what happened at Abu Ghraib because the Bush administration said only those lowly soldiers were doing such horrible things. We all know now that torture was being ordered from the whitehouse down. No Democrat was going to get the truth from Bush’s Whitehouse where many things were done without the Congress being notified at all.

This is really sad. The GOP (or any party)feeling empowered /needed/ etc by tearing down a person with opposing views to build yourself up.
Really sad.

Waterboard Pelosi. I am sure she will remember then.- Someone says this.
I totally agreed with it. Please Americans, we should get rid of Pelosi in 2010. This is the way America go to a right direction.

torture?? What’s that?? Oh, you mean protecting American lives at ALL cost and by ALL means. Yes, one tortured terrorist or enemy of the US people is worth it to save even one US life. So, whatever it takes! The real domestic enemy is congress!

george – If we loose our bearings on being the good guys the bad guys have won. Good guys DON’T torture! That’s the difference between us and them and as an American I’d like to keep it that way.

Democrats like Pelosi can routinely lie and the media downplays it hoping the story will go away. Democrats use billions of tax payer dollars to fund corrupt groups like ACORN (under numerous investigations for voter fraud and embezzling tax payer funds) and the media says little or nothing.
Democrats observe no legal constraints that do not suit them, from rampant organized voter fraud at the street level to blatant disregard of constitutionally dictated legislative procedure and process to thwart the will of the voters and the media cheers them on. The media should be opposing everything democrats do but they don’t nor will they.
What the first 100 days of President Obama’s Administration has demonstrated is that there is no such thing as the Constitution and the rule of law, there is only power and money. The democrats never shrink from a tactic they deem advantageous to taking power from the private sector and the States, no matter how damaging they may be to national interests. Their lack of scruples has been rewarded and as we have seen already they are fully prepared to exploit the powers they have won. See the allocation of funds for the democrat voter fraud machine ACORN in the recently passed suicide pact called the ‘porkulus bill’ for example.
How about a nationwide tax revolt organized and fully supported by the entire Republican party as step one. San Francisco has demonstrated the feasibility of defying federal laws on immigration and harboring illegal aliens. Following this lead Republican governors could protect state citizens from federal tax prosecutions. Step two would be to directly and explicitly challenge Obama’s legitimacy until he proves otherwise. The merits of the challenge are immaterial, what counts is establishing the reality by repetition of the assertion as fact. The Democrats exploited this tactic with regard to the motivations and execution of the Iraq war and the housing crisis to tremendous political advantage.
Bottom line, the GOP has to use the tactics the Democrats have so successfully used to seize power if they expect to stop Democrats from permanently destroying America as we know it. The question is, even it the GOP has he guts to use the same tactics the Democrats routinely use will the media meekly stand by and even cheer lead a similar power grab from the GOP? Probably not.

Jordan,
The Republicans had plenty of help..namely Pelosi and the Democrat congress. Stop blaming Bush, it’s time to look at All who are to blame. Taking responsibility is a two way street. Bush is gone…Pelosi should be.

She was aware. I was there

I’m a registered democrat and certainly vote and throw my support that way.
All I have to say about this is; Nancy Pelosi had any credibility to begin with? AS IF…………

“In her statement, Pelosi also points out that — as she has maintained — she was only present for one of the more than 40 briefings for members of Congress on enhanced interrogation techniques.”….I guess that not having in interest in showing up and listening to what was being reported in over 40 briefings on the same topic is a viable excuse? What exactly was she doing instead of her job?

Let’s see . . . Pelosi claimed that the CIA memo incorrectly shows her to be lying in her first denial, and then we have this response reported:
“Now she’s to the point of accusing the CIA of lying to her,” [United States Representative] Hoekstra said. “Her story keeps changing.”
Which next leads Pelosi’s mouthpiece Daly to provide this “clarification”:
“Daly said that Pelosi’s public statements have not changed, and added that she ‘is making no accusation against the CIA — she referenced the director’s letter to Mr. Hoekstra in which he said that the descriptions provided by the CIA may not be accurate.’ ”
So it appears that we’ve arrived at the point where the Speaker of the House for the United States of America (the most powerful nation on earth) is now telling American citizens through her mouthpiece that the Obama-appointed Director of the CIA (the most powerful intelligence agency on earth) has now announced to American citizens that his CIA agents are maybe either lying or are incompetent or are neither — and that he doesn’t even know if they are or are not or are neither.
Americans are definitely in the very best of hands!!!
What’s next? Maybe the CIA will now disclose that it was actually Pelosi who piloted Air Farce One when it buzzed New York, and the President’s teleprompter was flying the fighter jet while the President took THE photo — the ONLY photo.
But Pelosi will probably just say the CIA liars (or incompetents) are once again being liars (or incompetents), and the CIA Director will say maybe they are or maybe they aren’t but that he just doesn’t know (again).
Whatever comes out next, this witch hunt has at least uncovered the witch despite her tangled web of deceit.
Score: America 1, Pelosi 0

This is a non issue as far as I’m concerned, whether she knew and signed off on so called torture. The bigger issue is that she is part of the checks and balances that are set up in our system and she didn’t do much to uphold these checks and balances, she instead chose to save her political butt at the time, and she didn’t care enough about what was going on to even be present. This is the typical story of a politician who goes whichever way the wind blows and tries to have it both ways in the end.

she knew and didn’t object. Think of the political damage had she objected and the LA attack occurred. She would be blamed for preventing the attack. As it was, waterboarding got the data, we saved American’s lives and we should do more of it.

Pelosi has lost a lot including her mind – and whats his face in the Senate.
Pelosi’s eyes give it away – that crazed look…the last time I saw such a look was watching Friday the 13th.
People do not feel badly or upset about her actions – Duval Patrick governor of Massachusetts, wants to give Free vehicles to those on welfare, register them, and insure them so they can find work. Those who habitually are on welfare, live and die on it .. have 8 or 9 kids collect food stamps, money, free health/medical, and now he wants to give people in the slums free cars. Hell – its better being a foreigner or poor in the U.S. than it is being a 60 hour a week american worker.

An interesting sidebar to all of this is that ABC was schooled by the CIA earlier when their CIA operative told Brian Ross and televised on his show that Abu Zubaydah was only waterboarded once. Weel we know that wasn’t so. And there “were” republican committee members who were at the 40 intel briefings, uh where is the outrage at their lack of honesty. This is a smear job. Oh by the way, Pelosi is out of the country and unable to defend herself. Again before you get outraged, get the facts.

Hey I am glad that Bush kept us safe. Not so sure that will last much longer. Believe me she knew what was going on. She just thinks all of us Americans are stupid and will believe her. Yeah right. Fat chance…………I don’t believe any of them. They still don’t get it and the country is falling apart. Glad I am poor so I won’t fell the pain as bad at the people who claim to care about us.

NO enhanced interrogation, no water boarding, so what if a few thousand americans die, thats just collateral damage.

but palin but bush but cheney but but but is this the dems answer for every thing ?????????????? cant you stand up for your guys by saying my guy or girl is right because this>?

My family attended the welcome party for my uncle’s son who has been one of combat troops from Iraq. I am so proud and thank of his service. He has shared how his team has made a lot of efforts to catch the terrorists even one or two because nowadays female and teenager boy suicide bombers have been growing and growing at the spot of battle. Thus, he’s almost disillusioned with what main stream medias, some high level politicians and few domestic American seem to be more interested in human rights of the Detainers at GITMO, the waterborading of the terrorists, enhanced interrogation techniques
American Warrior’s efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. I can say definitely that AMERICA GOES A WRONG DIRECTION NOW. WE SHOULD GET RID OF NANCY PELOSI IN 2010.

In addition to all of the reports implicating that many congressional members (including Pelosi) were briefed on the terrorist interrogations, the Select Senate Intelligence Committee was also privy to this kind of information. John Rockefeller was in on the most of these meetings.
2001-2002 Senate Select Intelligence Committee
Bob Graham,Florida Richard C. Shelby,Alabama
Carl Levin, Michigan Jon Kyl, Arizona
John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia James M.Inhofe, Oklahoma
Dianne Feinstein, California Orrin G. Hatch, Utah
Ron Wyden, Oregon Pat Roberts, Kansas
Richard Durbin, Illinois Mike DeWine, Ohio
Evan Bayh, Indiana Fred Thompson, Tennessee
John Edwards,North Carolina
Richard G. Lugar, Indiana
Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
Thomas A. Daschle, South Dakota
Trent Lott, Mississippi
Harry Reid was on later committees that received detailed info on the interrogations.

DOES ANYONE seriously doubt the fact that Nancy Pelosi is easily the worst Speaker ever to hold that position ? WOW !

Like politicans on both sides- Pelosi is a proven liar. Congress and the people need to demand these types be kicked out on their cans!

Phil – Bob Graham (as you noted on the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time as Pelosi) says they were not briefed on torture.

Since all of the GOP condone Torture and waterboarding you have no problem when it is done to American soldiers correct? You remember POW’s, John McCain? Since you all do not care, why don’t you sign up and go fight in the war’s? Do you duty for America just like our young men and women.

Pelosi is a part of the group raising accusations against Bush and his administration. Why did she wait five years? Why didn’t they bring this up before the last incident? There was time in between incidents. If this was such a hot button issue why wasn’t it made one when it was occuring. This tactic was used and there are documents describing it all over the internet. What is the issue now, the lack of information or the lack of allegance to America. What’s our next tactics for retaining terrorists, three square meals and volley ball?