Thread: Nancy Pelosi Liar and Hyprocrite

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Memo Says Pelosi Knew About Use of Harsh Tactics

By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 8, 2009

Intelligence officials released documents yesterday saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda suspects, seeming to contradict her repeated statements that she was never told the techniques were actually being used.

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress briefed on the tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House intelligence committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The memo, issued to Capitol Hill by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency, notes that the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered "EITs including the use of EITs" on Abu Zubaida. EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique, and Abu Zubaida, whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured. He also was the first to have the controversial tactic of simulated drowning, or waterboarding, used against him.


The issue of what Pelosi knew and when she knew it has become a tussle on Capitol Hill. Republicans have accused her of knowing for years about the interrogation techniques CIA agents were using and of objecting only when the tactics became public and antiwar activists protested.

In a carefully worded statement, Pelosi's office said yesterday that she had never been briefed about the use of waterboarding, only that it had been approved by Bush administration lawyers as a legal interrogation technique.

"As this document shows, the speaker was briefed only once, in September 2002. The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not yet been used," said Brendan Daly, Pelosi's spokesman.

Yes she is. I don't support torture, but I also don't want our people prosecuted if they felt for whatever reason it was the right to do at that time. It's old past history of war that last took place over 5 years ago. Did it do some good? I hope it did, and wish there were other better ways to get this information. That's what we need to focus on .. how to get the information in better ways ... not how someone chose to do it 5 years ago absent any other better ways.

People make mistakes, we all learn from them, there was no motive involved in this except to try to defend America from another terrorist attack, and from what I hear some of the information they gleaned possibly did just that.

These people like Pelosi are indeed liars and hypocrites. You think if someone had her 5 kids or however big her brood is and she wanted to get them back that she wouldn't authorize whatever it took to get her kids back to safety? If a bomb was planted in San Francisco and if it exploded was sure to take out her home, family, friends and vineyards, she wouldn't authorize whatever it took to get the location of that bomb so it could be disengaged to avert an explosion?

Puleeze. She'd be the first one shouting from the rafters to waterboard the SOB to get the information, and she'd hold the hose and turn on the faucet.

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And they call her Nancy Trash

Hoekstra Calls for Hearings on Pelosi 'Torture' Claims

Friday, May 8, 2009 4:09 PM
By: Chris Gonsalves

Congressman Pete Hoekstra is calling for the release of more CIA documents, and perhaps even congressional hearings, to determine what fellow lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about CIA interrogation methods like waterboarding.

Hoekstra, R-Mich., the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, says the record is now clear that Pelosi lied when she said she knew nothing about the harsh interrogation techniques.

"Clearly her left wing is outraged that waterboarding was used," Hoekstra told The Hill. "The bottom line is she and her key staff, they all knew about it."

Hoekstra says he wants additional CIA documents made public, including several that give a more complete account of what was discussed in congressional briefings. He's also not ruling out hearings on what members knew and when they knew it.

"I wouldn't have a problem with the intelligence committee or the Judiciary Committee having hearings on this," he said. "If [House Judiciary Chairman] John Conyers [D-Mich.] wants to have hearings, they shouldn't call in the Department of Justice attorneys as their first witnesses. The first people that should be called in and held accountable ought to be Congress."

Hoekstra also indicated he is considering sending Conyers a letter requesting such hearings.

"He now has a list of who should be the first witnesses," Hoekstra added.

Pelosi has been under fire since it was revealed late Thursday that she was thoroughly briefed in September 2002 that CIA interrogators were waterboarding terrorist Abu Zubaydah, according to report from the National Intelligence Director's Office that Fox News and other agencies obtained.

The revelations completely contradict Pelosi’s repeated assertions that she knew nothing about “harsh interrogationâ€