Nancy Pelosi Caught In A Blatant Lie

April 24. 2009

Nancy Pelosi: what?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been caught in a whopper (no, not the burger). She lied to the public, stating she did not know the government waterboarded people.

Politico caught her red-handed and was able to extract a 2002 item, where she stated she did know the government engaged in this awful practice.

Pelosi briefed on waterboarding in '02 [UPDATED]

April 23, 2009 - Nancy Pelosi denies knowing U.S. officials used waterboarding — but GOP operatives are pointing to a 2007 Washington Post story which describes an hour-long 2002 briefing in which Pelosi was told about enhanced interrogation techniques in graphic detail.

Two unnamed officials told the paper that Pelosi, then a member of the Democratic minority, didn't raise substantial objections.

Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen wrote:

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said….

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