Pelosi Accuses CIA Of Lying to Her
In a stunning development, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA of lying to her and “misleading the Congress of the United States.” In fact, she’s practically dared the CIA to leak more information about the briefings. I suspect that’s gonna hurt her in the near future.
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.”
She went on to call on the CIA to release the details of briefings they provided to Congress and for the creation of a truth commission to “determine how intelligence was misused and how controversial and possibly illegal activities like torture were authorized within the executive branch.”
Speaker Pelosi is using the CIA as a weapon to drag the Bush administration into this. Unfortunately for Ms. Pelosi, she’s made too many conflicting statements to be credible. She started off by saying she hadn’t been briefed, then switched her story to say that she’d been briefed that waterboarding was legal but it wasn’t being used before saying that Jane Harman was writing a letter expressing concerns with the legality of waterboarding to now saying that the CIA mislead her and Congress.
Ed nails it with this commentary:
More to the point, people who attended the same and similar briefings in that period have already acknowledged publicly that the CIA told them explicitly of their use. Some briefings included videotapes of the interrogations, which have been destroyed and created their own scandal on Capitol Hill and Langley.
It isn’t difficult to not trust Ms. Pelosi at this point. Her statements have been proven false from so many different directions that it’s impossible to keep track of all the ways.
Rather than go through all the different melodramas created by Ms. Pelosi’s varying stories, I’ll just simplify it to this: Speaker Pelosi was caught lying. Instead of admitting she lied, she concocted more lies which have gotten her into deeper trouble.
In short, Ms. Pelosi hasn’t figured out that the first rule of holes is to stop digging.
Let the leak wars begin.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
May 15th, 2009 at 12:17 am
The more she talks the better. Keep digging Pelosi.
May 15th, 2009 at 7:15 am
How do I lie to you ? Let me count the ways. Nancy
May 15th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Have to admit, I didn’t think much would come of this because I didnt think that eiher the press had the sophistication to follow it and/or Pelosi was that dumb, that she’d keep digging once she knew it could blow up in her face.
May 16th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Pelosi’s policies of torture will go down in history as this country’s grossest misuse of power in modern times. I’m glad we have so many conservatives supporting this investigation.
May 20th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
That last Botox injection, really turned out to be a frontal lobotomy.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:34 am
The more she talks the better. Keep digging Pelosi.